Place:Cherry, Nebraska, United States

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NameCherry
Alt namesCherrysource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeCounty
Coordinates42.55°N 101.1°W
Located inNebraska, United States     (1883 - )
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Arabia
Bayonne
Brownlee
Cascade
Cody
Conterra
Crookston
Doughboy
Eli
Elsmere
Falter Place
Hartgraves Place
Hire
Kennedy
Kilgore
Leat
Merriman
Nenzel
Simeon
Sparks
Thatcher
Thomas Place
Valentine
Wood Lake
Unknown
Georgia
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Cherry County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 5,713. Its county seat is Valentine. The county was named for Lt. Samuel A. Cherry, an Army officer who was stationed at Fort Niobrara and who had been killed in South Dakota in 1881. Cherry County is in the Nebraska Sandhills. It is the largest county in the state at nearly 6,000 square miles, larger than the state of Connecticut.

In the Nebraska license plate system, Cherry County is represented by the prefix 66 (it had the 66th-largest number of vehicles registered in the state when the license plate system was established in 1922).

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Timeline

Date Event Source
1882 Land records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1883 County formed Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1883 Court records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1883 Marriage records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1883 Probate records recorded Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
1890 First census Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
1890 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
1890 6,428
1900 6,541
1910 10,414
1920 11,753
1930 10,898
1940 9,637
1950 8,397
1960 8,218
1970 6,846
1980 6,758
1990 6,307
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External links

www.rootsweb.com/~necherry/

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