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Sioux County, Nebraska

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

6historic places

—earliest paper

1877formed

1,135pop. 2020

6cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 6 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1973. Most listings are in or near Harrison, Agate, Crawford.

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 Sioux titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

6 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Agate Fossil Beds National Monument (Boundary Increase and Additional Documentation)	Harrison	District	2013
Cook, Harold J., Homestead Cabin	Agate	District	1977
Hudson-Meng Bison Kill Site	Crawford	Site	1973
Sandford Dugout	Mitchell	Building	2000
Sioux County Courthouse	Harrison	District	1990
Wind Springs Ranch Historic and Archeological District	Scottsbluff	District	2000

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Sioux was formed in 1877 (1877-02-19) from unknown / original county.

SIOUX created from Non-County Area 1.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
699	2,055	4,528	4,001	3,124	2,575	1,845	1,475	1,135

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
agfo	Park unit	5.4 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

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

Cemeteries — 6 of 6 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Bodarc Cemetery	42.79987	-103.77895
Glendale Cemetery	42.61238	-103.53956
Harrison Cemetery	42.67738	-103.87605
Pioneer Cemetery	42.97267	-103.69998
Saint Mary Cemetery	42.6868	-103.87364
Union Star Cemetery	42.77658	-103.56039

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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