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Name of County Date Formed Parent County Progeny County
Adams 16 Feb 1867 Clay none
Antelope 01 Mar 1871 Pierce none
Arthur 31 Mar 1887 Nebraska Territory none
Banner 1888 Cheyenne none
Blaine 05 Mar 1885 Custer Thomas 1887
Blackbird 22 Jun 1867 Nebraska Territory renamed Thurston 1889
Boone 01 Mar 1871 Platte Greeley 1871, Wheeler 1877
Box Butte 23 Mar 1887 Nebraska Territory none
Boyd 20 Mar 1891 Holt none
Brown 19 Feb 1883 Nebraska Territory Keya Paha 1884, Rock 1857
Buffalo 14 Mar 1855 Nebraska Territory Dawson 1860, Sherman 1871
Burt 23 Nov 1854 Nebraska Territory Cuming 1855, Thurston 1889
Butler 26 Jan 1856 Nebraska Territory none
Calhoun 14 Mar 1855 Nebraska Territory renamed Saunders 1862
Cass 23 Nov 1854 Nebraska Territory none
Cedar 12 Feb 1857 Nebraska Territory none
Chase 27 Feb 1873 Nebraska Territory none
Cherry 23 Feb 1883 Nebraska Territory none
Cheyenne 22 Jun 1867 Nebraska Territory Banner 1888, Deuel 1888, Kimball 1888, Morrill 1908, Scotts Bluff 1881
Clay 07 Mar 1855 Nebraska Territory Adams 1867, Nuckolls 1860
Colfax 15 Feb 1869 Dodge none
Cuming 16 Mar 1855 Burt none
Custer 17 Feb 1877 Nebraska Territory Blaine 1885, Logan 1885
Dakota 07 Mar 1855 Nebraska Territory none
Dawes 19 Feb 1885 Sioux none
Dawson 11 Jan 1860 Buffalo none
Deuel 06 Nov 1888 Cheyenne Garden 1909
Dixon 26 Jan 1856 Nebraska Territory none
Dodge 23 Nov 1854 Nebraska Territory Colfax 1869
Douglas 23 Nov 1854 Nebraska Territory Saunders 1865
Dundy 27 Feb 1873 Nebraska Territory none
Emmet 18 Feb 1867 renamed from L’Eau Qui Court renamed Knox 1873
Fillmore 26 Jan 1856 Nebraska Territory none
Forney 23 Mar 1854 Nebraska Territory renamed Nemaha 1856
Franklin 16 Feb 1867 Kearney none
Frontier 17 Jan 1872 Nebraska Territory Red Willow 1873
Furnas 27 Feb 1873 Nebraska Territory none
Gage 16 Mar 1855 Nebraska Territory Jefferson 1856, Saline 1855
Garden 02 Nov 1909 Deuel none
Garfield 08 Nov 1884 Wheeler none
Gosper 26 Nov 1873 Nebraska Territory none
Grant 31 Mar 1887 Nebraska Territory none
Greeley 01 Mar 1871 Boone none
Greene 11 Jan 1860 Nebraska Territory renamed Seward 1862
Hall 04 Nov 1858 Nebraska Territory Howard 1871
Hamilton 16 Feb 1867 York none
Harlan 01 Mar 1871 Nebraska Territory none
Hayes 19 Feb 1877 Nebraska Territory none
Hitchcock 27 Feb 1873 Nebraska Territory none
Holt 09 Jan 1862 renamed from West Boyd 1891
Izard 23 Nov 1854 Nebraska Territory renamed Stanton 1855
Johnson 02 Mar 1855 Nebraska Territory none
Jefferson 06 Mar 1855 Nebraska Territory Thayer 1856
Kearney 10 Jan 1860 Nebraska Territory Franklin 1867
Keith 27 Feb 1873 Lincoln McPherson 1887, Perkins 1887
Keya Paha 04 Nov 1884 Brown, Rock none
Kimball 06 Nov 1888 Cheyenne none
Knox 21 Feb 1873 renamed from Emmet none
Lancaster 06 Mar 1855 Nebraska Territory Saline 1855, Seward 1885
L’Eau Qui Court 10 Feb 1857 Nebraska Territory renamed Emmett 1867
Lincoln 11 Dec 1861 renamed from Shorter Keith 1873, McPherson 1887
Logan 24 Feb 1885 Custer none
Loup 06 Mar 1855 Nebraska Territory none
Madison 26 Jan 1856 Platte Pierce 1856
McPherson 31 Mar 1887 Lincoln, Keith none
Merrick 04 Nov 1858 Nebraska Territory Nance 1879
Morrill 03 Nov 1908 Cheyenne none
Nance 13 Feb 1879 Merrick none
Nemaha 26 Jan 1856 renamed from Forney none
Nuckolls 13 Jan 1860 Clay none
Otoe 23 Nov 1854 Nebraska Territory none
Pawnee 06 Mar 1855 Nebraska Territory none
Perkins 08 Nov 1887 Keith none
Phelps 11 Feb 1873 Nebraska Territory none
Pierce 26 Jan 1856 Madison Antelope 1871
Platte 26 Jan 1856 Nebraska Territory Boone 1871, Madison 1856
Polk 26 Jan 1856 Nebraska Territory none
Red Willow 27 Feb 1873 Frontier none
Richardson 23 Nov 1854 Nebraska Territory none
Rock 23 May 1857 Brown Keya Paha 1884
Saline 06 Mar 1855 Gage, Lancaster none
Sarpy 07 Feb 1857 Nebraska Territory Saundrs 1865
Saunders 26 Jan 1865 Sarpy, Douglas none
Scotts Bluff 06 Nov 1881 Cheyenne none
Seward 03 Jan 1862 renamed Greene none
Sheridan 01 Jul 1885 Sioux none
Sherman 01 Mar 1871 Buffalo none
Shorter 26 Jan 1856 Nebraska Territory renamed Lincoln 1861
Sioux 19 Feb 1877 Nebraska Territory Dawes 1885, Sheridan 1885
Stanton 06 Mar 1855 renamed from Izard none
Thayer 26 Jan 1856 Jefferson none
Thomas 31 Mar 1887 Blaine none
Thurston 28 Mar 1889 Burt Wayne 1871
Valley 01 Mar 1871 Nebraska Territory none
Washington 23 Nov 1854 Nebraska Territory none
Wayne 04 Mar 1871 Thurston none
Webster 16 Feb 1867 Nebraska Territory none
West 13 Jan 1860 Nebraska Territory renamed Holt 1862
Wheeler 17 Feb 1877 Boone Garfield 1884
York 13 Mar 1855 Nebraska Territory Hamilton 1867
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