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There are 93 counties in the U.S. state of Nebraska.

Nebraska's postal abbreviation is NE and its FIPS state code is 31.

County list

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County	FIPS code[1]	County seat[2]	Established[2]	Origin	Meaning of name	License plate prefix[3]	Population(2020)[4]	Area[2]	Map
AdamsCounty	001	Hastings	1867	Unorganized territory	John Adams, second President of the United States	14	31,205	563sqmi(1,458km2)
AntelopeCounty	003	Neligh	1871	Unorganized territory	Pronghorn, often called antelope	26	6,295	857sqmi(2,220km2)
ArthurCounty	005	Arthur	1913	Unorganized territory	Chester A. Arthur, twenty-first president of the United States	91	434	715sqmi(1,852km2)
BannerCounty	007	Harrisburg	1888	Formed from Cheyenne County	Early settlers' goal of making it the "banner county" of the state	85	674	746sqmi(1,932km2)
BlaineCounty	009	Brewster	1885	Unorganized territory	James G. Blaine, national politician	86	431	711sqmi(1,841km2)
BooneCounty	011	Albion	1871	Unorganized territory	Daniel Boone, American pioneer and trapper	23	5,379	687sqmi(1,779km2)
Box ButteCounty	013	Alliance	1887	Formed from Dawes County	A box-shaped butte north of Alliance	65	10,842	1,075sqmi(2,784km2)
BoydCounty	015	Butte	1891	Holt County and unorganized territory (Indian Territory)	James E. Boyd, the eighth governor of Nebraska	63	1,810	540sqmi(1,399km2)
BrownCounty	017	Ainsworth	1883	Unorganized territory	The Brown family of early settlers	75	2,903	1,221sqmi(3,162km2)
BuffaloCounty	019	Kearney	1855	Unorganized territory	The American Bison	9	50,084	968sqmi(2,507km2)
BurtCounty	021	Tekamah	1854	One of nine original counties	Francis Burt, the first territorial governor	31	6,722	493sqmi(1,277km2)
ButlerCounty	023	David City	1856	Formed from Greene County	William O. Butler, U.S. Congressman and military leader	25	8,369	584sqmi(1,513km2)
CassCounty	025	Plattsmouth	1854	One of nine original counties	Lewis Cass, U.S. Senator who supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act	20	26,598	559sqmi(1,448km2)
CedarCounty	027	Hartington	1857	Formed from Dixon and Pierce Counties	The eastern red cedar[5]	13	8,380	740sqmi(1,917km2)
ChaseCounty	029	Imperial	1873	Unorganized territory	Champion S. Chase, Nebraska's first attorney general	72	3,893	894sqmi(2,315km2)
CherryCounty	031	Valentine	1883	Unorganized territory	Samuel A. Cherry, army lieutenant killed in the Indian Wars	66	5,455	5,961sqmi(15,439km2)
CheyenneCounty	033	Sidney	1867	Unorganized territory	Named for the Cheyenne Indian tribe	39	9,468	1,196sqmi(3,098km2)
ClayCounty	035	Clay Center	1855	Formed from unorganized territory	Henry Clay, national politician	30	6,104	573sqmi(1,484km2)
ColfaxCounty	037	Schuyler	1869	Formed from Platte County	Schuyler Colfax, Vice President of the United States	43	10,582	413sqmi(1,070km2)
CumingCounty	039	West Point	1855	Formed from Burt County	Thomas B. Cuming, first territorial secretary	24	9,013	572sqmi(1,481km2)
CusterCounty	041	Broken Bow	1877	Unorganized territory	George Armstrong Custer, U.S. Army general	4	10,545	2,576sqmi(6,672km2)
DakotaCounty	043	Dakota City	1855	Formed from Burt County	Dakota branch of the Sioux Indian tribe	70	21,582	264sqmi(684km2)
DawesCounty	045	Chadron	1885	Formed from Sioux County	James W. Dawes, the sixth governor of Nebraska	69	8,199	1,396sqmi(3,616km2)
DawsonCounty	047	Lexington	1860	Unorganized territory	Jacob Dawson, first postmaster for Lincoln	18	24,111	1,013sqmi(2,624km2)
DeuelCounty	049	Chappell	1888	Formed from Cheyenne County	The Deuel family of early settlers	78	1,838	440sqmi(1,140km2)
DixonCounty	051	Ponca	1856	Formed from Blackbird County, Izard County, and unorganized territory	The Dixon family of early settlers	35	5,606	476sqmi(1,233km2)
DodgeCounty	053	Fremont	1854	One of nine original counties	Augustus Caesar Dodge, U.S. Senator who supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act	5	37,167	534sqmi(1,383km2)
DouglasCounty	055	Omaha	1854	One of nine original counties	Stephen Arnold Douglas, national politician	1	584,526	331sqmi(857km2)
DundyCounty	057	Benkelman	1873	Unorganized territory	Elmer Scipio Dundy, U.S. Circuit Court judge	76	1,654	920sqmi(2,383km2)
FillmoreCounty	059	Geneva	1856	Formed from Jackson County and unorganized territory	Millard Fillmore, thirteenth president of the United States	34	5,551	576sqmi(1,492km2)
FranklinCounty	061	Franklin	1867	Formed from Kearney County	Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father	50	2,889	576sqmi(1,492km2)
FrontierCounty	063	Stockville	1872	Unorganized territory	Its location	60	2,519	975sqmi(2,525km2)
FurnasCounty	065	Beaver City	1873	Unorganized territory	Robert Wilkinson Furnas, third governor of Nebraska	38	4,636	718sqmi(1,860km2)
GageCounty	067	Beatrice	1855	Unorganized territory	William D. Gage, contemporary chaplain of the state legislature	3	21,704	855sqmi(2,214km2)
GardenCounty	069	Oshkosh	1910	Formed from Deuel County	Early settlers' hopes for it to become the "garden spot of the west"	77	1,874	1,705sqmi(4,416km2)
GarfieldCounty	071	Burwell	1884	Formed from Wheeler County	James Abram Garfield, twentieth president of the United States	83	1,813	570sqmi(1,476km2)
GosperCounty	073	Elwood	1873	Unorganized territory	John J. Gosper, contemporary Nebraska secretary of state	73	1,893	458sqmi(1,186km2)
GrantCounty	075	Hyannis	1887	Unorganized territory	Ulysses S. Grant, eighteenth president of the United States	92	611	776sqmi(2,010km2)
GreeleyCounty	077	Greeley Center	1871	Unorganized territory	Horace Greeley, journalist	62	2,188	570sqmi(1,476km2)
HallCounty	079	Grand Island	1858	Unorganized territory	Augustus Hall, contemporary chief justice of the Territorial Supreme Court	8	62,895	546sqmi(1,414km2)
HamiltonCounty	081	Aurora	1867	Unorganized territory	Alexander Hamilton, first United States Secretary of the Treasury	28	9,429	544sqmi(1,409km2)
HarlanCounty	083	Alma	1871	Formed from Kearney County	Disputed; either James Harlan, national politician, or a local revenue collector	51	3,073	553sqmi(1,432km2)
HayesCounty	085	Hayes Center	1877	Unorganized territory	Rutherford B. Hayes, nineteenth president of the United States	79	856	713sqmi(1,847km2)
HitchcockCounty	087	Trenton	1873	Unorganized territory	Phineas Warren Hitchcock, Nebraska U.S. Senator	67	2,616	710sqmi(1,839km2)
HoltCounty	089	O'Neill	1860	Unorganized territory	Joseph Holt, U.S. Postmaster General and Secretary of War	36	10,127	2,413sqmi(6,250km2)
HookerCounty	091	Mullen	1889	Unorganized territory	Joseph Hooker, U.S. Army general	93	711	721sqmi(1,867km2)
HowardCounty	093	Saint Paul	1871	Formed from Hall County	Oliver O. Howard, U.S. Army general	49	6,475	570sqmi(1,476km2)
JeffersonCounty	095	Fairbury	1856	Unorganized territory	Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States	33	7,240	573sqmi(1,484km2)
JohnsonCounty	097	Tecumseh	1857	Formed from Nemaha and Otoe Counties	Richard Mentor Johnson, ninth vice president of the United States	57	5,290	376sqmi(974km2)
KearneyCounty	099	Minden	1860	Unorganized territory	Fort Kearny, with a misspelling	52	6,688	516sqmi(1,336km2)
KeithCounty	101	Ogallala	1873	Unorganized territory	M.C. Keith, rancher with wide holdings	68	8,335	1,061sqmi(2,748km2)
Keya PahaCounty	103	Springview	1884	Formed from Brown County and unorganized Indian territory	Dakota words Ké-ya Pa-há Wa-kpá (turtle hill river)	82	769	773sqmi(2,002km2)
KimballCounty	105	Kimball	1888	Formed from Cheyenne County	Thomas L. Kimball, Union Pacific Railroad official	71	3,434	952sqmi(2,466km2)
KnoxCounty	107	Center	1857	Formed from Pierce County and unorganized territory (Former names-L'Eau Qui Court (1857-1867) and Emmet (1867-1873))	Henry Knox, first U.S. Secretary of War	12	8,391	1,108sqmi(2,870km2)
LancasterCounty	109	Lincoln	1855	Formed from Cass and Pierce Counties	Lancaster, Pennsylvania and Lancaster, England	2	322,608	839sqmi(2,173km2)
LincolnCounty	111	North Platte	1860	Unorganized territory	Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth president of the United States	15	34,676	2,564sqmi(6,641km2)
LoganCounty	113	Stapleton	1885	Unorganized territory	John A. Logan, U.S. Army general	87	716	571sqmi(1,479km2)
LoupCounty	115	Taylor	1883	Unorganized territory	Loup River	88	607	570sqmi(1,476km2)
MadisonCounty	119	Madison	1856	Formed from Loup County, and McNeale County, and unorganized territory	Either James Madison, fourth president of the United States, or local settlers' native Madison, Wisconsin	7	35,585	573sqmi(1,484km2)
McPhersonCounty	117	Tryon	1887	Unorganized territory	James B. McPherson, U.S. Army general	90	399	859sqmi(2,225km2)
MerrickCounty	121	Central City	1858	Formed from Polk County and unorganized territory	Elvira Merrick, wife of legislator Henry W. DePuy	46	7,668	485sqmi(1,256km2)
MorrillCounty	123	Bridgeport	1908	Formed from Cheyenne County	Charles Henry Morrill, president of the Lincoln Land Company	64	4,555	1,424sqmi(3,688km2)
NanceCounty	125	Fullerton	1879	Formed from a Pawnee Indian reservation	Albinus Nance, fourth governor of Nebraska	58	3,380	441sqmi(1,142km2)
NemahaCounty	127	Auburn	1854	One of nine original counties	Nimaha, the Otoe name meaning miry water for a local stream	44	7,074	409sqmi(1,059km2)
NuckollsCounty	129	Nelson	1860	Unorganized territory	Lafayette Nuckolls, a member of the first Nebraska territorial legislature; and his brother, Stephen Nuckolls, a pioneering Nebraska settler, businessman and banker	42	4,095	575sqmi(1,489km2)
OtoeCounty	131	Nebraska City	1854	One of nine original counties	Oto (also Otoe) Native American tribe	11	15,912	616sqmi(1,595km2)
PawneeCounty	133	Pawnee City	1855	Formed from Richardson County	Pawnee Native American tribe	54	2,544	432sqmi(1,119km2)
PerkinsCounty	135	Grant	1887	Formed from Keith County	Charles E. Perkins, a president of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad	74	2,858	883sqmi(2,287km2)
PhelpsCounty	137	Holdrege	1873	Formed from Kearney County	William Phelps, an early settler[5]	37	8,968	540sqmi(1,399km2)
PierceCounty	139	Pierce	1856	Formed from Izard County, McNeale County, and unorganized territory	Franklin Pierce, the fourteenth president of the United States	40	7,317	574sqmi(1,487km2)
PlatteCounty	141	Columbus	1856	Formed from Greene and Loup Counties	Platte River which is in turn named for the French word for flat	10	34,296	678sqmi(1,756km2)
PolkCounty	143	Osceola	1856	Formed from York County and unorganized territory	James Knox Polk, the eleventh president of the United States	41	5,214	439sqmi(1,137km2)
Red WillowCounty	145	McCook	1873	Unorganized territory	Red Willow Creek, which runs through the area	48	10,702	717sqmi(1,857km2)
RichardsonCounty	147	Falls City	1854	One of nine original counties	William A. Richardson, a governor of the Nebraska Territory	19	7,871	554sqmi(1,435km2)
RockCounty	149	Bassett	1885	Formed from Brown County	Either Rock Creek, which flows in the county; or the rocky condition of the soil in the area	81	1,262	1,008sqmi(2,611km2)
SalineCounty	151	Wilber	1867	Unorganized territory	Named for a belief held by the early pioneers that great salt springs and deposits could be found in the area, a hope found to be false	22	14,292	575sqmi(1,489km2)
SarpyCounty	153	Papillion	1857	Formed from Cass and Douglas Counties	Peter A. Sarpy, a commander of a trading post in the future county	59	190,604	241sqmi(624km2)
SaundersCounty	155	Wahoo	1856	Formed from Douglas and Lancaster Counties	Alvin Saunders, a governor of the Nebraska Territory	6	22,278	754sqmi(1,953km2)
Scotts BluffCounty	157	Gering	1888	Formed from Cheyenne County	Named for a towering bluff located in the Scotts Bluff National Monument; the bluffs themselves are named for Hiram Scott, a fur trapper who is alleged to have crawled 75 miles with a broken leg before collapsing and dying at the foot of the formation	21	36,084	739sqmi(1,914km2)
SewardCounty	159	Seward	1855	Formed from Cass and Pierce Counties	William Henry Seward, the United States Secretary of State during the 1860s	16	17,609	575sqmi(1,489km2)
SheridanCounty	161	Rushville	1885	Formed from Sioux County	Philip Henry Sheridan, a general in the American Civil War	61	5,127	2,441sqmi(6,322km2)
ShermanCounty	163	Loup City	1871	Formed from Buffalo County and unorganized territory	William Tecumseh Sherman, the American Civil War general	56	2,959	566sqmi(1,466km2)
SiouxCounty	165	Harrison	1877	Unorganized territory	Sioux Native American tribe	80	1,135	1,313sqmi(3,401km2)
StantonCounty	167	Stanton	1855	Formed from Burt County	Edwin M. Stanton, the United States Secretary of War during most of the American Civil War	53	5,842	430sqmi(1,114km2)
ThayerCounty	169	Hebron	1871	Formed from Jefferson County	John Milton Thayer, the seventh governor of Nebraska	32	5,034	575sqmi(1,489km2)
ThomasCounty	171	Thedford	1887	Unorganized territory	George Henry Thomas, a general in the American Civil War	89	669	713sqmi(1,847km2)
ThurstonCounty	173	Pender	1889	Formed from Blackbird County and an Omaha Indian reservation	John Mellen Thurston, a U.S. senator from Nebraska	55	6,773	394sqmi(1,020km2)
ValleyCounty	175	Ord	1871	Unorganized territory	Named for the many valleys in the area	47	4,059	568sqmi(1,471km2)
WashingtonCounty	177	Blair	1854	One of nine original counties	George Washington, the first president of the United States	29	20,865	390sqmi(1,010km2)
WayneCounty	179	Wayne	1867	Unorganized territory	Anthony Wayne, the American Revolutionary War general nicknamed "Mad Anthony" by his troops	27	9,697	444sqmi(1,150km2)
WebsterCounty	181	Red Cloud	1867	Unorganized territory	Daniel Webster, the statesman and U.S. Senator from Massachusetts	45	3,395	575sqmi(1,489km2)
WheelerCounty	183	Bartlett	1877	Unorganized territory	Daniel H. Wheeler, a secretary of the Nebraska State Board of Agriculture	84	774	575sqmi(1,489km2)
YorkCounty	185	York	1855	Formed from Cass County, Pierce County, and unorganized territory	Named for either York, England, or York County, Pennsylvania	17	14,125	576sqmi(1,492km2)

Former counties of Nebraska

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• Clay (1855-64) Formed from un-organized and dissolved into Gage and Lancaster County.
• Jackson (1855-6) Formed from un-organized and dissolved to the Fillmore County and un-organized.
• Johnson (1855-6) Formed from un-organized and dissolved to un-organized
• Blackbird (1855-88) Formed from Burt County and dissolved to Thurston County
• Loup (1855-6) Formed from Burt and un-organized and then dissolved Madison, Monroe and Platte Counties
• Jones (1856-66) Formed from un-organized and dissolved into Jefferson County.
• Grant, Harrison, Jackson, Lynn, Monroe and Taylor counties listed in 1870 (But no proof on where)

Notes

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1. ↑ "EPA County FIPS Code Listing". EPA.gov. Retrieved 2008-05-04.
2. 1 2 3 National Association of Counties. "NACo County Explorer". Retrieved 2015-10-25.
3. ↑ The license plate prefix sequence is derived from the number of vehicles registered in each county in 1922.
4. ↑ U.S. Census Bureau. "U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: Nebraska". Retrieved January 10, 2024.
5. 1 2 Fitzpatrick, Lilian Linder (1925). "Nebraska Place-Names". University of Nebraska Department of English. Retrieved 2010-09-02.

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