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Cherry County, Nebraska
Cherry County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 census, the population was 5,455, and was estimated to be 5,558 in 2024. The county seat and the largest city is Valentine.
In the Nebraska license plate system, Cherry County was represented by the prefix "66" (as it had the 66th-largest number of vehicles registered in the state when the license plate system was established in 1922).
Cherry County was created on February 23, 1883 and named for Lt. Samuel A. Cherry, an Army officer who was stationed at Fort Niobrara and was killed in South Dakota in 1881. Cherry County is in the Nebraska Sandhills. It is the state's largest county, at nearly 6,000 square miles (16,000 km2), larger than three states, Rhode Island, Delaware and Connecticut.
On November 3, 1911, Cherry County held a referendum that asked whether voters wanted to split the county into 5 different sections. The measure proposed that the western 60 miles were cut from the county, and divided as follows: the 60 miles is split in half into 30 mile strips, with 18 miles being taken from the south of those strips and given to Grant and Hooker Counties. The remaining northern parts would create two new counties: Lake and Green. The proposal failed, receiving 390 votes in favor, and 1,368 against. Unofficial precinct results detail that it succeeded in only 3 of the county's 42 precincts. A map of the proposed changes can be viewed below:
Cherry County lies on the north side of Nebraska. Its north boundary line abuts the south boundary line of South Dakota.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 6,009.595 square miles (15,564.78 km2), of which 5,960.099 square miles (15,436.59 km2) is land and 49.496 square miles (128.19 km2) (0.82%) is water. It is the largest county in Nebraska by total area.
It is by far Nebraska's largest county in land area and larger than the state of Connecticut, or the states of Delaware and Rhode Island combined. The county is in Nebraska's Sandhills region; the dunes that give the region its name are a result of the most recent glacial period, the Pinedale glaciation. During the Holocene glacial retreat, the dunes, which had been deposited by the vast continental glaciers, were exposed, and grasses eventually took over.
Nebraska's largest county by area, Cherry County borders 11 counties, more than any other county in Nebraska. Seven of them are in Nebraska and four in South Dakota. The adjacent counties are:
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Cherry County, Nebraska
Cherry County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 census, the population was 5,455, and was estimated to be 5,558 in 2024. The county seat and the largest city is Valentine.
In the Nebraska license plate system, Cherry County was represented by the prefix "66" (as it had the 66th-largest number of vehicles registered in the state when the license plate system was established in 1922).
Cherry County was created on February 23, 1883 and named for Lt. Samuel A. Cherry, an Army officer who was stationed at Fort Niobrara and was killed in South Dakota in 1881. Cherry County is in the Nebraska Sandhills. It is the state's largest county, at nearly 6,000 square miles (16,000 km2), larger than three states, Rhode Island, Delaware and Connecticut.
On November 3, 1911, Cherry County held a referendum that asked whether voters wanted to split the county into 5 different sections. The measure proposed that the western 60 miles were cut from the county, and divided as follows: the 60 miles is split in half into 30 mile strips, with 18 miles being taken from the south of those strips and given to Grant and Hooker Counties. The remaining northern parts would create two new counties: Lake and Green. The proposal failed, receiving 390 votes in favor, and 1,368 against. Unofficial precinct results detail that it succeeded in only 3 of the county's 42 precincts. A map of the proposed changes can be viewed below:
Cherry County lies on the north side of Nebraska. Its north boundary line abuts the south boundary line of South Dakota.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 6,009.595 square miles (15,564.78 km2), of which 5,960.099 square miles (15,436.59 km2) is land and 49.496 square miles (128.19 km2) (0.82%) is water. It is the largest county in Nebraska by total area.
It is by far Nebraska's largest county in land area and larger than the state of Connecticut, or the states of Delaware and Rhode Island combined. The county is in Nebraska's Sandhills region; the dunes that give the region its name are a result of the most recent glacial period, the Pinedale glaciation. During the Holocene glacial retreat, the dunes, which had been deposited by the vast continental glaciers, were exposed, and grasses eventually took over.
Nebraska's largest county by area, Cherry County borders 11 counties, more than any other county in Nebraska. Seven of them are in Nebraska and four in South Dakota. The adjacent counties are: