County Past
Home › Nebraska › Washington County

Washington County, Nebraska

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

—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
15historic places
—earliest paper
1854formed
20,865pop. 2020
18cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 15 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Blair, Fort Calhoun, Ft. Calhoun.

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 Washington titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

9 of 15 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

15 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Bertrand SiteBlairSite1969
Blair High SchoolBlairBuilding1991
Castetter, Abraham, HouseBlairBuilding1982
Congregational Church of BlairBlairBuilding1979
Crowell, C. C., Jr., HouseBlairBuilding1982
Dana College CampusBlairDistrict2021
Engineer CantonmentFt. CalhounSite2015
Fontanelle Township HallFontanelleBuilding1982
Fort Atkinson NHLFort CalhounSite1966
Frahm, Alfred H. and Sarah, HouseFort CalhounBuilding2006
Gottsch FarmsteadBenningtonBuilding2016
Long Creek SchoolBlairBuilding2001
Marshall, George A., HouseArlingtonBuilding2018
Old McDonald FarmBlairBuilding2001
Washington County CourthouseBlairDistrict1990

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Washington was formed in 1854 (1854-11-23) from unknown / original county.

WASHINGTON created by proclamation of the acting governor of Nebraska Territory from non-county area.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

21k11k1,2491860188019201940196020002020
1860188019001920194019501960198020002020
1,2498,63113,08612,18011,57811,51112,10315,50818,78020,865

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

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

Cemeteries — 18 of 18 listed
NameLatLon
Arlington Cemetery41.45948-96.33917
Blair Cemetery41.54991-96.11906
Cuming City Cemetery41.58621-96.17454
East Admah Cemetery41.66939-96.40536
German Cemetery41.41554-96.13751
Gods Acre Cemetery41.50624-96.36801
Hartung Cemetery41.51842-96.42654
Herman Cemetery41.65734-96.20336
Immanuel Cemetery41.59657-96.43014
Kennard Cemetery41.4738-96.21385
New England Cemetery41.66924-96.33312
Pioneer Memorial Cemetery41.44739-96.0974
Prairie View Cemetery41.42254-96.22396
Seventh Day Adventist Cemetery41.46643-96.31273
Shipley Cemetery41.39353-95.98283
Thone Cemetery41.62871-96.24712
Vacoma Cemetery41.61354-96.34829
West Admah Cemetery41.66971-96.44279
Historical populated places — 1 of 1
NameLatLon
Admah41.66944-96.39613

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

Marker text and photos from the Historical Marker Database (HMdb) are not embedded here. HMdb allows non-commercial reuse with attribution, but commercial/compensated use needs written permission; this is a commercial site, so we only link out.

Search HMdb for Washington County, Nebraska

Terms: hmdb.org/copyright.asp. Linking is encouraged by HMdb.