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Nuckolls County, Nebraska

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—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

7historic places

—earliest paper

1860formed

4,095pop. 2020

12cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 7 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1988. Most listings are in or near Superior, Nelson, Lawrence.

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 Nuckolls titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

7 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Kendall, Wallace Warren and Lillian Genevieve Bradshaw, House	Superior	Building	1993
Lawrence Opera House	Lawrence	Building	1988
Nelson Cemetery Walk	Nelson	Structure	2002
Nuckolls County Courthouse	Nelson	District	1990
Stewart Bridge	Oak	Structure	1992
Superior City Hall and Auditorium	Superior	Building	2012
Superior Downtown Historic District	Superior	District	1994

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Nuckolls was formed in 1860 (1860-01-13) from unknown / original county.

NUCKOLLS created by Nebraska Territory from Non-County Area 3. Mistake in description corrected in the General Statutes of Nebraska 1873.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Nuckolls County population from 1870 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1870	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
8	4,235	12,414	13,236	10,446	9,609	8,217	6,726	5,057	4,095

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

Cemeteries — 12 of 12 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Beulah Cemetery	40.13257	-98.19983
Evergreen Cemetery	40.03771	-98.06613
Liberty Creek Cemetery	40.33618	-98.20407
Mount Zion Cemetery	40.19771	-97.84015
Nora Cemetery	40.13948	-97.97115
Oak Grove Cemetery	40.23221	-97.8739
Oxbow Cemetery	40.25604	-98.0284
Pleasant Hill Cemetery	40.31467	-98.12315
Sacred Heart Cemetery	40.29227	-98.22732
Salem Cemetery	40.12559	-98.06604
Smith Cemetery	40.30786	-98.05727
Spring Creek Cemetery	40.12611	-97.877

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Abdal	40.12223	-98.12338

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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