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Pawnee County, Nebraska

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14historic places

—earliest paper

1855formed

2,544pop. 2020

16cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 14 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1974. Most listings are in or near Pawnee City, Table Rock, DuBois.

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 Pawnee titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

8 of 14 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

14 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Farwell Archeological District	DuBois	District	1997
Hempstead, E. F., House	Pawnee City	Building	1982
Lindsley House	Table Rock	Building	1999
Lloyd, Harold, Birthplace	Burchard	Building	1993
Pawnee City Carnegie Library	Pawnee City	Building	2010
Pawnee City Historic Business District	Pawnee City	District	1994
Pawnee County Courthouse	Pawnee City	District	1990
Rad Jan Kollar cis 101 Z. C. B. J.	DuBois	Building	1990
Rinne Farm	Pawnee City	Building	2015
Steinauer Opera House	Steinauer	Building	1988
Table Rock Archeological Site	Table Rock	Site	1974
Table Rock Opera House	Table Rock	Building	1988
Table Rock Public Square Historic District	Table Rock	District	1994
US Post Office-Pawnee City	Pawnee City	Building	1992

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Pawnee was formed in 1855 (1855-03-16) from Richardson, Forney.

PAWNEE created by Nebraska Territory from RICHARDSON and FORNEY (extinct).

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
882	6,920	11,770	9,578	8,514	6,744	5,356	3,937	3,087	2,544

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

16 cemeteries and 4 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 16 of 16 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Beranek Cemetery	40.20388	-96.16151
Bohemian Cemetery	40.17857	-96.03824
Burchard Cemetery	40.1388	-96.35443
Cincinnati Cemetery	40.00413	-96.02756
Clear Creek Cemetery	40.21916	-96.13942
DuBois Cemetery	40.02332	-96.04903
Evergreen Cemetery	40.0486	-96.14194
Lewiston Cemetery	40.24764	-96.38901
Mission Creek Cemetery	40.01499	-96.42668
Mount Pleasant Cemetery	40.18224	-96.40664
Rinne Cemetery	40.2472	-96.2744
Sacred Heart Cemetery	40.146	-96.36874
Saint Anthonys Cemetery	40.20735	-96.21913
Saint Johns Cemetery	40.21494	-96.06608
Saint Peters Cemetery	40.0011	-96.10958
Tanner Cemetery	40.02401	-96.41455

Historical populated places — 4 of 4

Name	Lat	Lon
Armour	40.11945	-96.42029
Mission	40.03056	-96.40863
Tate	40.20972	-96.45446
Violet	40.1325	-96.25473

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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