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- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia
Custer County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 10,939. Its county seat is Broken Bow. The county was formed in 1877 and named after General George Armstrong Custer, who was killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
In the Nebraska license plate system, Custer County is represented by the prefix 4 (it had the fourth-largest number of vehicles registered in the county when the license plate system was established in 1922).
Timeline
| Date | Event | Source
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| 1877 | County formed | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1877 | Court records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1877 | Probate records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1880 | First census | Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
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| 1880 | Land records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1880 | No significant boundary changes after this year | Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
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| 1883 | Marriage records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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Population History
- source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
| Census Year | Population
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| 1880 | 2,211
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| 1890 | 21,677
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| 1900 | 19,758
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| 1910 | 25,668
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| 1920 | 26,407
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| 1930 | 26,189
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| 1940 | 22,591
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| 1950 | 19,170
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| 1960 | 16,517
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| 1970 | 14,092
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| 1980 | 13,877
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| 1990 | 12,270
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Research Tips
External links
www.rootsweb.com/~necuste2/
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