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Harlan County, Nebraska

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—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

7historic places

—earliest paper

1871formed

3,073pop. 2020

12cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 7 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1992. Most listings are in or near Orleans, Alma, Stamford.

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 Harlan titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

7 of 7 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

7 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Alma Carnegie Library	Alma	Building	2021
Alma City Auditorium and Sale Barn	Alma	Building	2014
Cordelia Bennett Preston Memorial Library	Orleans	Building	2021
Hotel Orleans	Orleans	Building	2021
Prairie Dog Creek Bridge	Orleans	Structure	1992
Sappa Creek Bridge	Stamford	Structure	1992
Turkey Creek Bridge	Ragan	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

Harlan was formed in 1871 (1871-06-03) from Kearney.

HARLAN created from KEARNEY.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
6,086	9,370	9,220	7,130	7,189	5,081	4,292	3,786	3,073

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
Antelope Cemetery	40.33561	-99.25585
Bainbridge Cemetery	40.23407	-99.31523
Calvary Cemetery	40.13767	-99.4426
Freewater Cemetery	40.30801	-99.20718
Home Cemetery	40.0022	-99.58065
Huntley Zion Cemetery	40.20519	-99.23624
Lutheran Cemetery	40.04637	-99.5539
Oxford Cemetery	40.25743	-99.61267
Pleasant Hill Cemetery	40.07298	-99.62912
Republican City Cemetery	40.08984	-99.26039
Spring Grove Cemetery	40.27751	-99.55918
Stamford Cemetery	40.14695	-99.59343

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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