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Thayer County, Nebraska

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

2historic places

—earliest paper

1871formed

5,034pop. 2020

22cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 2 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1973. Most listings are in or near Alexandria, Hebron.

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 Thayer titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

2 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Dill, Richard E., House	Alexandria	Building	1973
US Post Office-Hebron	Hebron	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

Thayer was formed in 1871 (1871-05-09) from Jefferson.

THAYER created from JEFFERSON. Act passed 1 Mar 1871; successful referendum on creation of THAYER held 9 May 1871.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
6,113	14,325	13,976	12,262	10,563	9,118	7,582	6,055	5,034

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

22 cemeteries and 2 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 22 of 22 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Alexandria Cemetery	40.24886	-97.40673
Chester Cemetery	40.02301	-97.61285
Hebron Cemetery	40.17542	-97.58777
Hebron Cemetery	40.17584	-97.5856
Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery	40.14748	-97.76021
Keim Cemetery	40.3223	-97.60359
Peace Lutheran Cemetery	40.14636	-97.72174
Pleasant Plain Cemetery	40.32171	-97.474
Rose Creek Cemetery	40.07058	-97.36977
Rose Hill Cemetery	40.18889	-97.59643
Sacred Heart Cemetery	40.17685	-97.5882
Saint Johns Cemetery	40.017	-97.59487
Saint Marks Cemetery	40.13297	-97.82051
Saint Marys Cemetery	40.22033	-97.38868
Saint Paul Lutheran Cemetery	40.03851	-97.8037
Saint Pauls Cemetery	40.0161	-97.76456
Saint Pauls Cemetery	40.04384	-97.46244
Saint Pauls Cemetery	40.16131	-97.80051
Saint Peter Lutheran Cemetery	40.14648	-97.71426
Union Cemetery	40.13199	-97.40658
Williams Cemetery	40.03221	-97.43511
Zion Lutheran Cemetery	40.1016	-97.78306

Historical populated places — 2 of 2

Name	Lat	Lon
Stoddard	40.0889	-97.61421
Williams	40.05667	-97.41504

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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