COUNTY POPULATIONS, 1860 to 1950
Nebraska - Selected Years
	18601	18701	18801	1890	1900	1910	1920	1930	1940	1950
Adams	0	19	10,235	24,303	18,840	20,900	22,621	26,275	24,576	28,855
Antelope	0	0	3,953	10,399	11,344	14,003	15,243	15,206	13,289	11,624
Arthur	0	0	0	91	0	0	1,412	1,344	1,045	803
Banner	0	0	0	2,435	1,114	1,444	1,435	1,676	1,403	1,325
Blaine	0	0	0	1,146	603	1,672	1,778	1,584	1,538	1,203
Boone	0	0	4,170	8,683	11,689	13,145	14,146	14,738	12,127	10,721
Box Butte	0	0	0	5,494	5,572	6,131	8,407	11,861	10,736	12,279
Boyd	0	0	0	695	7,332	8,826	8,243	7,169	6,060	4,911
Brown	0	0	0	4,359	3,470	6,083	6,749	5,772	5,962	5,164
Buffalo	114	193	7,531	22,162	20,254	21,907	23,787	24,338	23,655	25,134
Burt	388	2,847	6,937	11,069	13,040	12,726	12,559	13,062	12,546	11,536
Butler	27	1,290	9,194	15,454	15,703	15,403	14,606	14,410	13,106	11,432
Cass	3,369	8,151	16,683	24,080	21,330	19,786	18,029	17,684	16,992	16,361
Cedar	246	1,032	2,899	7,028	12,467	15,191	16,225	16,427	15,126	13,843
Chase	0	0	70	4,807	2,559	3,613	4,939	5,484	5,310	5,176
Cherry	0	0	0	6,428	6,541	10,414	11,753	10,898	9,637	8,397
Cheyenne	0	190	1,558	5,693	5,570	4,551	8,405	10,187	9,505	12,081
Clay	165	54	11,294	16,310	15,735	15,729	14,486	13,571	10,445	8,700
Colfax	0	1,424	6,588	10,453	11,211	11,610	11,624	11,434	10,627	10,010
Cuming	67	2,964	5,569	12,265	14,584	13,782	13,769	14,327	13,562	12,994
Custer	0	0	2,211	21,677	19,758	25,668	26,407	26,189	22,591	19,170
Dakota	819	2,040	3,213	5,386	6,286	6,564	7,694	9,505	9,836	10,401
Dawes	0	0	0	9,722	6,215	8,254	10,160	11,493	10,128	9,708
Dawson	16	103	2,909	10,129	12,214	15,961	16,004	17,875	17,890	19,393
Deuel	0	0	0	2,893	2,630	1,786	3,282	3,992	3,580	3,330
Dixon	247	1,345	4,177	8,084	10,535	11,477	11,815	11,586	10,413	9,129
Dodge	309	4,212	11,263	19,260	22,298	22,145	23,197	25,273	23,799	26,265
Douglas	4,328	19,982	37,645	158,008	140,590	168,546	204,524	232,982	247,562	281,020
Dundy	0	0	37	4,012	2,434	4,098	4,869	5,610	5,122	4,354
Fillmore	0	238	10,204	16,022	15,087	14,674	13,671	12,971	11,417	9,610
Franklin	0	26	5,465	7,693	9,455	10,303	10,067	9,094	7,740	7,096
Frontier	0	0	934	8,497	8,781	8,572	8,540	8,114	6,417	5,282
Furnas	0	0	6,407	9,840	12,373	12,083	11,657	12,140	10,098	9,385
Gage	421	3,359	13,164	36,344	30,051	30,325	29,721	30,242	29,588	28,052
Garden	0	0	0	0	0	3,538	4,572	5,099	4,680	4,114
Garfield	0	0	0	1,659	2,127	3,417	3,496	3,207	3,444	2,912
Gosper	0	0	1,673	4,816	5,301	4,933	4,669	4,287	3,687	2,734
Grant	0	484	0	458	763	1,097	1,486	1,427	1,327	1,057
Greeley	0	0	1,461	4,869	5,691	8,047	8,685	8,442	6,845	5,575
Hall	116	1,057	8,572	16,513	17,206	20,361	23,720	27,117	27,523	32,186
Hamilton	0	130	8,267	14,096	13,330	13,459	13,237	12,159	9,982	8,778
Harlan	0	0	6,086	8,158	9,370	9,578	9,220	8,951	7,130	7,189
Hayes	0	0	119	3,953	2,708	3,011	3,327	3,603	2,958	2,404
Hitchcock	0	0	1,012	5,799	4,409	5,415	6,045	7,269	6,404	5,867
Holt	0	0	3,287	13,672	12,224	15,545	17,151	16,509	16,552	14,859
Hooker	0	0	0	426	432	981	1,378	1,180	1,253	1,061
Howard	0	0	4,391	9,430	10,343	10,783	10,739	10,020	8,422	7,226
Jefferson	0	2,440	8,096	14,850	15,196	16,852	16,140	16,409	15,532	13,623
Johnson	528	3,429	7,595	10,333	11,197	10,187	8,940	9,157	8,662	7,251
Kearney	474	58	4,072	9,061	9,866	9,106	8,583	8,094	6,854	6,409
Keith	0	0	194	2,556	1,951	3,692	5,294	6,721	8,333	7,449
Keya Paha	0	0	0	3,920	3,076	3,452	3,594	3,203	3,235	2,160
Kimball	0	0	0	959	758	1,942	4,498	4,675	3,913	4,283
Knox	152	261	3,666	8,582	14,343	18,358	18,894	19,110	16,478	14,820
Lancaster	153	7,074	28,090	76,395	64,835	73,793	85,902	100,324	100,585	119,742
Lincoln	0	17	3,632	10,441	11,416	15,684	23,420	25,627	25,425	27,380
Logan	0	0	0	1,378	960	1,521	1,596	2,014	1,742	1,357
Loup	0	0	0	1,662	1,305	2,188	1,946	1,818	1,777	1,348
McPherson	0	0	0	401	517	2,470	1,692	1,358	1,175	825
Madison	0	1,133	5,589	13,669	16,976	19,101	22,511	26,037	24,269	24,338
Merrick	109	557	5,341	8,758	9,255	10,379	10,763	10,619	9,354	8,812
Morrill	0	0	0	0	0	4,584	9,151	9,950	9,436	8,263
Nance	0	44	1,212	5,773	8,222	8,926	8,712	8,718	7,653	6,512
Nemaha	3,139	7,593	10,451	12,930	14,952	13,095	12,547	12,356	12,781	10,973
Nuckolls	22	8	4,235	11,417	12,414	13,019	13,236	12,629	10,446	9,609
Otoe	4,211	12,345	15,727	25,403	22,288	19,323	19,494	19,901	18,994	17,056
Pawnee	882	4,171	6,920	10,340	11,770	10,582	9,578	9,423	8,514	6,744
Perkins	0	0	0	4,364	1,702	2,570	3,967	5,834	5,197	4,809
Phelps	0	0	2,447	9,869	10,772	10,451	9,900	9,261	8,452	9,048
Pierce	0	152	1,202	4,864	8,445	10,122	10,681	11,080	10,211	9,405
Platte	782	1,899	9,511	15,437	17,747	19,006	19,464	21,181	20,191	19,910
Polk	19	136	6,846	10,817	10,542	10,521	10,714	10,092	8,748	8,044
Red Willow	0	0	3,044	8,837	9,604	11,056	11,434	13,859	11,951	12,977
Richardson	2,835	9,780	15,031	17,574	19,614	17,448	18,968	19,826	19,178	16,886
Rock	0	0	0	3,083	2,809	3,627	3,703	3,366	3,977	3,026
Saline	39	3,106	14,491	20,097	18,252	17,866	16,514	16,356	15,010	14,046
Sarpy	1,201	2,913	4,481	6,875	9,080	9,274	9,370	10,402	10,835	15,693
Saunders	0	4,547	15,810	21,577	22,085	21,179	20,589	20,167	17,892	16,923
Scotts Bluff	0	0	0	1,888	2,552	8,355	20,710	28,644	33,917	33,939
Seward	0	2,953	11,147	16,140	15,690	15,895	15,867	15,938	14,167	13,155
Sheridan	0	0	0	8,687	6,033	7,328	9,625	10,793	9,869	9,539
Sherman	0	0	2,061	6,399	6,550	8,278	8,877	9,122	7,764	6,421
Sioux	0	0	699	2,452	2,055	5,599	4,528	4,667	4,001	3,124
Stanton	0	636	1,813	4,619	6,959	7,542	7,756	7,809	6,887	6,387
Thayer	0	0	6,113	12,738	14,325	14,775	13,976	13,684	12,262	10,563
Thomas	0	0	0	517	628	1,191	1,773	1,510	1,553	1,206
Thurston	0	31	109	3,176	6,517	8,704	9,589	10,462	10,243	8,590
Valley	0	0	2,324	7,092	7,339	9,480	9,823	9,533	8,163	7,252
Washington	1,249	4,452	8,631	11,869	13,086	12,738	12,180	12,095	11,578	11,511
Wayne	0	182	813	6,169	9,862	10,397	9,725	10,566	9,880	10,129
Webster	0	16	7,104	11,210	11,619	12,008	10,922	10,210	8,071	7,395
Wheeler	0	0	644	1,683	1,362	2,292	2,531	2,335	2,170	1,526
York	0	604	11,170	17,279	18,205	18,721	17,146	17,239	14,874	14,346
Nebraska	28,841	122,993	452,402	1,058,910	1,066,300	1,192,214	1,296,372	1,377,963	1,315,834	1,325,510
1 The state total is more than the sum of the counties because several areas never had a legal existence and were dropped or reorganized in subsequent years.
Sources: Nebraska State Data Center, Center for Public Affairs Research, University of Nebraska at Omaha; and U.S. Bureau of the Census, "1990 Census of Population and Housing, Nebraska" and similar publications for preceding years.
Last Updated: 18-Apr-02
by Nebraska Databook
email: mlundeen@neded.org