Place:Richardson, Nebraska, United States

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NameRichardson
Alt namesRichardsonsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeCounty
Coordinates40.15°N 95.7°W
Located inNebraska, United States     (1854 - )
Contained Places
Cemetery
Saint Pauls Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery
Steele Cemetery
Inhabited place
Barada
Dawson
Falls City
Humboldt
Nim City
Preston
Rulo
Salem
Shubert
Stella
Verdon
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Richardson County is the easternmost county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2010 census, the population was 8,363. Its county seat is Falls City.

In the Nebraska license plate system, Richardson County is represented by the prefix 19 (it had the nineteenth-largest number of vehicles registered in the county when the license plate system was established in 1922).

Parts of the Ioway Reservation and the Sac and Fox Reservation are located in the southeast corner of the county between Falls City, Rulo (Nebraska), and Hiawatha (Kansas). The incorporated village of Preston, Nebraska is located inside the latter reservation.

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History

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The Nebraska Territory, including this county, was opened for settlement through the Kansas–Nebraska Act on May 30, 1854. Richardson County was created that same year and reorganized in 1855 by the first territorial legislature. It was named after William A. Richardson, a US Representative from the state of Illinois who had sponsored the Kansas-Nebraska Act; subsequently, in 1858, Richardson was appointed governor of the Nebraska Territory.

The first courthouse was built in 1863. The second courthouse was built in 1873 and burned on May 7, 1919.[1]

On May 30, 1879, the "Irving, Kansas Tornado" passed through Richardson County. This tornado measured F4 on the Fujita scale, and had a damage path wide and long. Eighteen people were killed and sixty were injured in this tornado.

In the summer of 1966, Braniff Airlines Flight 250 crashed near Falls City due to bad weather, killing all 42 on board. The BAC One-Eleven aircraft was on the Kansas City to Omaha leg of a multi-stop flight from New Orleans to Minneapolis on Saturday night, August 6.

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Timeline

Date Event Source
1854 County formed Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1855 Court records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1855 Land records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1855 Marriage records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1855 Probate records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1860 First census Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
1860 No significant boundary changes after this year Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
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Population History

source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
Census Year Population
1860 2,835
1870 9,780
1880 15,031
1890 17,574
1900 19,614
1910 17,448
1920 18,968
1930 19,826
1940 19,178
1950 16,886
1960 13,903
1970 12,277
1980 11,315
1990 9,937
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