Dawson County, Nebraska, United States

Details for Dawson County

Name

Dawson County

Place Type

County

Located in

Nebraska, United States

County Seat

Lexington

Coordinates

Latitude		40.8666737		40° 52' 00" N
Longitude		-99.8170614		99° 49' 01.4" W

Population

19,940

Elevation

747 m

Surrounding Counties

Buffalo E
Phelps SE
Gosper S
Frontier SW
Lincoln W
Custer N

USGS GNIS FeatureID

835845

Histopolis Place ID

921652718

Updated May 12, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Dawson County

9 Resources; Select a Cemetery below for additional resources specific to that Cemetery.

USGenWeb Archives: Dawson County NE [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ne/dawson/dawtable.htm (6 Jan 2010)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Nebraska > Dawson County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Nebraska > Dawson County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/NE/Dawson/ (6 Jun 2010)

Cemeteries in or near Dawson County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=22381&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (8 Jan 2009)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=1827 (30 Aug 2009)

Dawson County, Nebraska NE, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Dawson County, Nebraska NE, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=22381 (18 Nov 2008)

The Political Graveyard: Dawson County, Neb. [The Political Graveyard]
A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 192,291 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present.
http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NE/DA.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Dawson County, NEGenWeb Project - Cemetery Index [Dawson County NEGenWeb]
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/county/dawson1/cemetery/cemetery.html (27 Jun 2010)

Dawson County, Nebraska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawson_County,_Nebraska (28 Jul 2010)

Nebraska Gravestone Photo Project - Cemetery Index [Nebraska Gravestone Photo Project]
Research your Nebraska ancestors and family history by searching our online database of Nebraska gravestone photos. Locate Nebraska gravestone images of your descendants and discover your Nebraska roots.
http://nebraskagravestones.org/cemeteries.php?selected_cid=24 (6 Feb 2011)

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Surveys in Dawson County

1 Survey, 7 Ranges, 31 Townships

The Sixth Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Dawson County. You can navigate to any of the 31 survey townships that overlap Dawson County using the navigation tool below.

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Precincts of Dawson County

13 Precincts

Coyote	Cozad	Fairview	Farnam
German	Gillan	Gothenburg	Grant
Kennebec	Lexington	Overton	Ringgold
Wood River

Cities of Dawson County

3 Cities, 4 Villages, 9 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Area Mobile Park	Buffalo	Cozad (city)	Darr
Donald Price Mobile Home Park	Eddyville (village)	Farnam (village)	Gothenburg (city)
Horizon Mobile Home Park	Josselyn	Lexington (city)	Northside Village Mobile Home Park
Overton (village)	Sumner (village)	Trued	Willow Island

Cemeteries of Dawson County

36 Cemeteries, 32 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

American Lutheran (*)	Bethel (*)	Block	Brestal (*)
Buffalo Creek (*)	Buffalo Grove Presbyterian	Buffalo Lutheran (* Coyote Township)	Buffalo Lutheran (* Gillan Precinct)
Christ	Christ Lutheran (*)	Cottonwood	Cozad
Danish (*)	Eddyville Catholic (*)	Evergreen	Fairview
First Buffalo Lutheran	First German Lutheran (* Coyote Precinct)	First German Lutheran (* Coyote Township)	First Lutheran
German Evangelical Lutheran (*)	Gothenburg	Grace	Grand View
Green	Greenwood	Hewitt	Hillside
Hillside Lutheran (*)	Holcombe	I.O.O.F. (*)	Jewell
Johnson	Lake Helen (*)	Lewis (*)	Lomex
Mount Hope	Mt. Hope (*)	Overton	Park Valley
Pioneer (*)	Pleasant View	Rhinehart	Ringgold (*)
Rose Hill	Saint Annes (*)	Saint Anns	Saint Johns
Saint John's Danish Lutheran (*)	Saint Johns Lutheran (*)	Saint Patricks	Saint Patricks Catholic (*)
Salem	Salem Presbyterian (*)	St. Annes (*)	St. Anns (*)
St. Johns (*)	St. John's Danish Lutheran (*)	St. Johns Lutheran (*)	St. Patricks (*)
St. Patricks Catholic (*)	Sumner	Swedish Crosses	Unnamed
Walnut Grove	White Rabbitt (*)	Willow Island	Zion Lutheran

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