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Hitchcock County, Nebraska

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

—newspaper titles

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4historic places

—earliest paper

1873formed

2,616pop. 2020

10cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 4 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1974. Most listings are in or near Trenton, Stratton, Culbertson.

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 Hitchcock titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

2 of 4 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

4 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Bridge	Stratton	Structure	1992
Massacre Canyon Battlefield	Trenton	Site	1974
St. Paul's Methodist Protestant Church	Culbertson	Building	1979
Weyl Service Station	Trenton	Building	2002

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

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

HITCHCOCK created from Non-County Areas 4 and 6.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,012	4,409	6,045	6,404	5,867	4,829	4,079	3,111	2,616

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

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

Cemeteries — 10 of 10 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Cornell Cemetery	40.00286	-100.96531
Grove Cemetery	40.1221	-100.81526
Old Palisade Cemetery	40.33637	-101.09764
Palisade Cemetery	40.34415	-101.08962
Pleasant Ridge Cemetery	40.27164	-101.23088
Rose Hill Cemetery	40.16189	-101.23997
Rosefield Cemetery	40.12989	-101.09784
Saint James Cemetery	40.18921	-101.00194
Trenton Cemetery	40.19023	-101.00193
West Union Cemetery	40.06004	-101.28528

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Cornell	40.02389	-100.93766

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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