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Johnson County, Nebraska

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4historic places

—earliest paper

1857formed

5,290pop. 2020

14cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 4 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1975. Most listings are in or near Tecumseh.

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 Johnson 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
Johnson County Courthouse	Tecumseh	District	1990
Tecumseh Historic District	Tecumseh	District	1975
Tecumseh Opera House	Tecumseh	Building	1988
Townsend, George, House	Tecumseh	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

Johnson was formed in 1857 (1857-02-10) from Nemaha, Pawnee.

JOHNSON created by Nebraska Territory from NEMAHA and PAWNEE. JOHNSON was in the same general area as the short-lived JOHNSTON County (1855-1856).

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Johnson County population from 1860 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
528	7,595	11,197	8,940	8,662	7,251	6,281	5,285	4,488	5,290

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 2 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 14 of 14 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Cook Cemetery	40.51683	-96.18008
Crab Orchard Cemetery	40.32768	-96.43669
Grandview Cemetery	40.32747	-96.10444
Helena Cemetery	40.5088	-96.24631
Hopewell Cemetery	40.41806	-96.44196
Hopewell Cemetery	40.42683	-96.44768
Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery	40.46902	-96.42555
Livingston Cemetery	40.50832	-96.12387
Mount Hope Cemetery	40.47757	-96.12331
Saint Andrews Cemetery	40.39203	-96.19985
Saint Mary Cemetery	40.42805	-96.29047
Spring Creek Cemetery	40.39931	-96.12262
Sterling Cemetery	40.45861	-96.35862
Vesta Cemetery	40.363	-96.34151

Historical populated places — 2 of 2

Name	Lat	Lon
Graf	40.40028	-96.10445
Helena	40.50056	-96.24973

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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