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Dawes County, Nebraska

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
15historic places
—earliest paper
1885formed
8,199pop. 2020
13cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 15 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Chadron, Crawford.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Nebraska is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Dawes titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

11 of 15 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

15 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Army TheatreCrawfordBuilding1988
Bordeaux Trading PostChadronBuilding1972
Chadron Commercial Historic DistrictChadronDistrict2007
Chadron Public LibraryChadronBuilding1990
Co-operative Block BuildingCrawfordBuilding1985
Crites HallChadronBuilding1983
Dawes County CourthouseChadronDistrict1990
Fort Robinson and Red Cloud Agency NHLCrawfordDistrict1966
Hotel ChadronChadronBuilding2002
LibraryChadronBuilding1983
Miller HallChadronBuilding1983
Sparks HallChadronBuilding1983
US Post Office-CrawfordCrawfordBuilding1992
Wohlers, Henry, Sr., HomesteadCrawfordBuilding2004
Work, Edna, HallChadronBuilding1983

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Dawes was formed in 1885 (1885-02-19) from Sioux.

DAWES created from SIOUX.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Dawes County population from 1890 to 2020 (Census historical series).

11k8,8546,21518901920196020002020
189019001920194019501960198020002020
9,7226,21510,16010,1289,7089,5369,6099,0608,199

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

SiteTypeDist.
agfoPark unit59.8 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

13 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 13 of 13 listed
NameLatLon
Antelope Valley Cemetery42.61866-102.87071
Belmont Cemetery42.55284-103.29893
Bethel Cemetery42.68385-103.18475
Calvary Cemetery42.82156-103.00886
Crawford Cemetery42.71804-103.40565
Crow Butte Cemetery42.64585-103.36323
Greenwood Cemetery42.82672-103.02441
Highland Cemetery42.81625-102.93098
Highland Center Cemetery42.61079-103.1264
Marsland Cemetery42.4661-103.2844
Saint John Cemetery42.66803-103.39722
Shisler Cemetery42.79395-103.08769
Whitney Cemetery42.77047-103.25649

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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