Jefferson County, Nebraska, United States

Details for Jefferson County

Name

Jefferson County

Place Type

County

Located in

Nebraska, United States

County Seat

Fairbury

Coordinates

Latitude		40.1666689		40° 10' 00" N
Longitude		-97.1503128		97° 09' 01.1" W

Population

8,759

Elevation

432 m

Surrounding Counties

Gage E
Washington (Kansas) S
Republic (Kansas) SW
Thayer W
Fillmore NW
Saline N

USGS GNIS FeatureID

835869

Histopolis Place ID

999037541

Updated May 12, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Jefferson County

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

Cemeteries in or near Jefferson County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=22405&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (21 Dec 2008)

USGenWeb Archives: Jefferson County NE [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ne/jefferson/jeftable.htm (5 Jan 2010)

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

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=1851 (26 Aug 2009)

JCHS
http://www.jeffersoncountyhistory.com/ (16 Aug 2006)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Nebraska > Jefferson County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Nebraska > Jefferson County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/NE/Jefferson/ (25 Dec 2009)

Jefferson Co. Genealogical Society
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nejeffgs/ (25 Mar 2006)

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=48 (7 Feb 2011)

Jefferson County, Nebraska NE, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Jefferson 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=22405 (18 Nov 2008)

The Political Graveyard: Jefferson 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/JF.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

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Surveys in Jefferson County

1 Survey, 5 Ranges, 17 Townships

The Sixth Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Jefferson County. You can navigate to any of the 17 survey townships that overlap Jefferson County using the navigation tool below.

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Precincts of Jefferson County

15 Precincts

Antelope	Buckley	Cub Creek	Endicott
Eureka	Fairbury	Gibson	Jefferson
Lincoln	Meridian	Newton	Pleasant
Plymouth	Richland	Washington

Cities of Jefferson County

1 City, 8 Villages, 8 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Village is assumed unless noted)

Bower (historical u.p.)	Daykin	Diller	Endicott
Fairbury (city)	Gladstone (u.p.)	Harbine	Hedrix (u.p.)
Helvey (u.p.)	Jansen	Meridian (historical u.p.)	Plymouth
Powell (u.p.)	Reynolds	Rudy (u.p.)	Steele City
Thompson (u.p.)

Cemeteries of Jefferson County

39 Cemeteries, 20 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Bartel	Bower	Daykin (*)	Diller Prairie Home (*)
Emmanuel	Emmanuel Evangelical (*)	Eureka	Eureka Daykin (*)
Evangelical Lutheran	Fairbury	Friendship Kilpatrick (*)	German Presbyterian
Grace Lutheran	Grandy	The Grove (*)	Harbine
Helvey Pleasant Hill	Hildebrandt	Hope Church	Hope United Church of Christ (*)
Immanuel Lutheran (Plymouth Township)	Immanuel Lutheran (Washington Township)	Jansen	Keeney - Knispel (*)
Kilpatrick	Megli	Megli-Yost Boeckner (*)	Meridian
Moles Prairie	Old Fortner (*)	Old Plymouth	Peace Lutheran
Pleasant Hill (Lincoln Township)	Pleasant Hill (Washington Township)	Pleasant View (*)	Powell
Prairie Home	Richland Center	Rock Creek	Rose Hill
Saint Johns	Saint Johns Lutheran (*)	Saint Paul	Saint Paul United Church of Christ Cub Creek
Saint Paul's Lutheran	Silver Creek	St. Johns (*)	St. Johns Lutheran (*)
St. Paul (*)	St. Paul United Church of Christ Cub Creek (*)	St. Paul's Lutheran (*)	Steele City
Swan Creek	Swan Creek Humphrey (*)	Trinity Lutheran (*)	Woodlawn
Woodlawn Plymouth (*)	Zion Lutheran	Zion United Church of Christ

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