Harlan County, Nebraska

Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Harlan County, Nebraska.

A party of forty men from eastern Nebraska settled near the site of present-day Orleans in August 1870. In 1871, a party from the Wyoming Territory, led by Thomas Harlan, settled near present-day Alma, which was named after a settler's daughter. In that year, Harlan County was separated from Lincoln County by the Nebraska state legislature. Accounts differ as to the county's namesake: either Thomas Harlan, or James Harlan, who was U.S. Secretary of the Interior between 1865 and 1866.

Adjacent Counties

• Franklin County
• Kearney County
• Phelps County
• Phillips County, Kan.
• Furnas County
• Norton County, Kan.

Cities & Villages

• Alma (County Seat
• Huntley
• Orleans
• Oxford (part)
• Ragan
• Republican City
• Stamford

Other Townships & Communities: Albany, Antelope, Eldorado, Emerson, Fairfield, Madcot, Mullally, Oxford Junction, Prairie Dog, Reuben, Sappa, Scandinavia, Spring Grove, Turkey Creek and Washington

Links

Wikipedia

Genealogy Trails

Prairie Dog Creek Bridge

NE GenWeb