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Franklin County, Nebraska

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

—newspaper titles

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4historic places

—earliest paper

1867formed

2,889pop. 2020

11cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 4 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1982. Most listings are in or near Naponee, Franklin, Bloomington.

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 Franklin titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

3 of 4 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

4 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
First Congregational Church, U.C.C.	Naponee	Building	1982
Franklin County Courthouse	Franklin	Building	1990
Lost Creek Archeological Site	Bloomington	Site	1983
Republican River Bridge	Riverton	Structure	1992

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Franklin was formed in 1867 (1867-02-16) from Kearney.

FRANKLIN created by Nebraska Territory from KEARNEY.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Franklin County population from 1870 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1870	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
26	5,465	9,455	10,067	7,740	7,096	5,449	4,377	3,574	2,889

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

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

Cemeteries — 11 of 11 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Bailey Cemetery	40.18259	-99.03428
Blauvelt Cemetery	40.24083	-98.99099
Fuller Cemetery	40.07643	-98.79274
Greenwood Cemetery	40.10147	-98.94458
Hildreth Cemetery	40.32932	-99.02965
Koch Cemetery	40.29292	-98.7468
Saint Johns Cemetery	40.32201	-99.16333
Saint Peters Cemetery	40.3281	-99.04734
Stevens Cemetery	40.09752	-98.81994
Trinity Lutheran Cemetery	40.26266	-98.76082
Upland Cemetery	40.3076	-98.89765

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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