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Furnas County, Nebraska

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—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

2historic places

—earliest paper

1873formed

4,636pop. 2020

14cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 2 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1992. Most listings are in or near Cambridge.

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 Furnas titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

2 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Cambridge State Aid Bridge	Cambridge	Structure	1992
Faling, W.H., House	Cambridge	Building	1999

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Furnas was formed in 1873 (1873-02-27) from unknown / original county.

FURNAS created from Non-County Area 6.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
6,407	12,373	11,657	10,098	9,385	7,711	6,486	5,324	4,636

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

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

Cemeteries — 14 of 14 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Arapahoe Cemetery	40.32417	-99.90012
Deaver Cemetery	40.10308	-99.64938
Edison Cemetery	40.2919	-99.79058
Fairview Cemetery	40.28491	-100.18266
Garfield Cemetery	40.24917	-99.89956
Kellner Cemetery	40.32145	-99.63111
Lynden Cemetery	40.11847	-99.99418
Maple Creek Cemetery	40.04207	-99.7298
Mount Hope Cemetery	40.13313	-99.85241
Pleasantview Cemetery	40.2046	-99.96719
Rockton Cemetery	40.04556	-99.97683
Spring Green Cemetery	40.03404	-99.92783
Stump Cemetery	40.34769	-99.7629
Turner Cemetery	40.14695	-99.72511

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

Historical markers

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