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Kimball County, Nebraska

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

5historic places

—earliest paper

1888formed

3,434pop. 2020

3cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 5 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1983. Most listings are in or near Kimball.

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 Kimball titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

4 of 5 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

5 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Fraternal Hall	Kimball	Building	1983
Gridley-Howe-Faden-Atkins Farmstead	Kimball	Building	1997
Kimball County Courthouse	Kimball	Building	1990
Maginnis Irrigation Aqueduct	Kimball	Structure	1994
Wheat Growers Hotel	Kimball	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

Kimball was formed in 1888 (1888-11-06) from CHEYENNE by vote of electors.

KIMBALL created from CHEYENNE by vote of electors.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1890	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
959	758	4,498	3,913	4,283	7,975	4,882	4,089	3,434

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

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

Cemeteries — 3 of 3 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Bethel Cemetery	41.30545	-103.39428
Bushnell Cemetery	41.23479	-103.87451
Dix Cemetery	41.22205	-103.48908

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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