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Red Willow County, Nebraska

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—newspaper titles

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10historic places

—earliest paper

1873formed

10,702pop. 2020

16cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 10 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1967; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near McCook, Bartley, Indianola.

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 Red Willow titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

6 of 10 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

10 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Bartley Sales Barn	Bartley	Building	2018
Camp Indianola	Indianola	Site	2019
Doyle Archeological Site	McCook	Site	1974
Keystone Hotel	McCook	Building	2001
McCook Public-Carnegie Library	McCook	Building	1985
McCook YMCA	McCook	Building	2000
Norris, Senator George William, House NHL	McCook	Building	1967
Red Willow County Courthouse	McCook	Building	1990
Second-Generation Norden Bombsight Vault	McCook	Structure	1993
Stutton, H. P., House	McCook	Building	1978

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

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

RED WILLOW created from Non-County Area 6.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
3,044	9,604	11,434	11,951	12,977	12,940	12,615	11,448	10,702

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

Cemeteries — 16 of 16 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Bartley Cemetery	40.2611	-100.32655
Box Elder Cemetery	40.30824	-100.57563
Calvary Cemetery	40.20822	-100.64701
Cedar Grove Cemetery	40.24214	-100.42958
Danbury - Marion Cemetery	40.03803	-100.45999
Dry Creek Cemetery	40.29274	-100.34572
Fairview Cemetery	40.10671	-100.59238
Hamburg Cemetery	40.06104	-100.34266
Indianola Cemetery	40.24208	-100.42756
Memorial Park Cemetery	40.20891	-100.64497
Pleasant Prairie Cemetery	40.02463	-100.60995
Saint Catherine Cemetery	40.2413	-100.42755
Saint John Cemetery	40.1466	-100.51521
Trinity Cemetery	40.17542	-100.3302
Tyrone Cemetery	40.12527	-100.21161
Zion Hill Cemetery	40.27976	-100.74463

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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