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Niobrara County, Wyoming

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—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

5historic places

—earliest paper

1911formed

2,467pop. 2020

9cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 5 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1969. Most listings are in or near Lusk, Mule Creek, Riverview.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Wyoming is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Niobrara titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

3 of 5 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

5 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Agate Basin Site	Mule Creek	Site	1974
C and H Refinery Historic District	Lusk	District	2001
DSD Bridge over Cheyenne River	Riverview	Structure	1985
Lusk Water Tower	Lusk	Structure	1991
Site of Ferdinand Branstetter Post No. 1, American Legion	Van Tassell	Site	1969

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Niobrara was formed in 1911 (1911-02-21) from Converse.

NIOBRARA created from CONVERSE. NIOBRARA not fully organized, attached to CONVERSE "for judicial, revenue and election purposes." Technically, NIOBRARA had been created on 14 February 1911, but the mapping reflects the intent of the legislature.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Niobrara County population from 1920 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
6,321	5,988	4,701	3,750	2,924	2,407	2,467

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

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

Cemeteries — 9 of 9 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Dellview Cemetery	42.76921	-104.60745
Jireh Cemetery	42.77794	-104.71837
Lusk Cemetery	42.77159	-104.4519
Mother Featherlegs Cemetery	42.62617	-104.53123
Node Cemetery	42.71368	-104.30343
Pleasant Ridge Pioneer Cemetery	42.83107	-104.0927
Prairie View Cemetery	42.71079	-104.8789
Reynolds Cemetery	42.7417	-104.47408
Van Tassell Cemetery	42.65561	-104.09484

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Hat Creek	42.93941	-104.36967

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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