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Garfield County, Nebraska

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

3historic places

—earliest paper

1884formed

1,813pop. 2020

5cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 3 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1985. Most listings are in or near Burwell.

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 Garfield titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

3 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Burwell Carnegie Library	Burwell	Building	2006
Garfield County Frontier Fairgrounds	Burwell	District	1985
Hub Building	Burwell	Building	2006

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Garfield was formed in 1884 (1884-10-04) from WHEELER by vote of electors.

GARFIELD created from WHEELER by vote of electors. Creation was proclaimed by the governor, 4 Oct 1884.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1890	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,659	2,127	3,496	3,444	2,912	2,699	2,363	1,902	1,813

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

5 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 5 of 5 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Banner Cemetery	41.80255	-99.12585
Cottonwood Cemetery	41.76673	-99.14454
Littlefield Cemetery	41.80898	-99.1407
Parker Cemetery	41.82021	-99.1836
West Side Cemetery	41.81296	-99.02979

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Willow Springs	41.78362	-99.09482

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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