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Frontier County, Nebraska

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—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

2historic places

—earliest paper

1872formed

2,519pop. 2020

26cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 2 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1974. Most listings are in or near Cambridge, Stockville.

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 Frontier titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

0 of 2 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

2 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Mowry Bluff Archeological Site	Cambridge	Site	1974
Red Smoke Archeological Site	Stockville	Site	1974

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Frontier was formed in 1872 (1872-01-17) from unknown / original county.

FRONTIER created from Non-County Area 6.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Frontier County population from 1880 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
934	8,781	8,540	6,417	5,282	4,311	3,647	3,099	2,519

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

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

Cemeteries — 26 of 26 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Arbor Cemetery	40.54917	-100.40153
Center Point Cemetery	40.39415	-100.56285
Curtis Cemetery	40.65278	-100.52017
Eustis East Cemetery	40.67133	-100.02066
Eustis Methodist Cemetery	40.67112	-100.02068
Evergreen Cemetery	40.56889	-100.05762
Farnam Cemetery	40.69936	-100.2197
Gammill Cemetery	40.45392	-100.2833
Garden Prairie Cemetery	40.4446	-100.64788
Hammond Cemetery	40.40038	-100.23533
Independence Cemetery	40.55651	-100.19292
Lone Tree Cemetery	40.50376	-100.5821
Maywood Cemetery	40.66215	-100.63104
Moorefield Cemetery	40.67899	-100.40046
Mount Zion Cemetery	40.3683	-100.36318
Pioneer Cemetery	40.66332	-100.00132
Pleasant Hill - Marlin Cemetery	40.51131	-100.2285
Pleasant View Cemetery	40.43944	-100.20874
Prairie Land Cemetery	40.40784	-100.31824
Saint Ann's Cemetery	40.44516	-100.75322
Saint Thomas Cemetery	40.46453	-100.47829
Salem Lutheran Cemetery	40.49672	-99.98912
Stowe Cemetery	40.48979	-100.07561
Sunset Point Cemetery	40.60164	-100.44351
Westview Cemetery	40.67103	-100.03797
Zion Hill Cemetery	40.42324	-100.53282

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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