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Gosper County, Nebraska

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—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

1historic places

—earliest paper

1873formed

1,893pop. 2020

12cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 1 listed property in the county, first listed in 1990. Most listings are in or near Elwood.

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 Gosper titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

1 of 1 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

1 listed property

Property	City	Type	Listed
Gosper County Courthouse	Elwood	Building	1990

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Gosper was formed in 1873 (1873-08-29) from unknown / original county.

GOSPER created from Non-County Area 6 by proclamation of Gov. Furnas.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,673	5,301	4,669	3,687	2,734	2,489	2,140	2,143	1,893

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

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

Cemeteries — 12 of 12 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
East Muddy Cemetery	40.41655	-99.96168
Elwood Cemetery	40.59963	-99.83935
Fairfield Cemetery	40.46702	-99.75574
Homerville Cemetery	40.46673	-99.85979
Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery	40.42069	-99.86727
Mc Guire Cemetery	40.43789	-99.86697
Pleasant Grove Cemetery	40.46639	-99.92517
Quakerville Cemetery	40.61894	-99.81216
Robb Cemetery	40.67108	-99.6997
Robb Cemetery	40.67159	-99.69907
Salem East Cemetery	40.49755	-99.98018
Zion Cemetery	40.40869	-99.70088

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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