Sherard’s Nebraska Place Names Index

A database (Sherard’s Nebraska Place Names Index) has been compiled that allows researchers to locate place names. The researcher may input a Place Name or County and will be given a listing of all the matching name index entries.

The following information is given for most entries:

• Place Name


• County


• Atlas Page (if applicable)


• Atlas Microfilm Reel (if applicable)


• Atlas Year (if applicable)


• Map Source

Map Sources:

The following map sources (along with the County Atlases in the NSHS microfilm archives) were used for the compilation of this place name index:

1. Quin. Smith & Van Zandt’s tracing of an original map of the Territory of Nebraska drawn by the U.S. Surveyor General’s Office – 1857


2. Surveyor General’s Office Map Showing the Progress of Public Surveys in Kansas and Nebraska – 1859


3. Colton’s Kansas and Nebraska – 1859


4. Johnson’s Iowa and Nebraska – 1862


5. Johnson’s Nebraska, Dakota, Colorado, & Kansas – 1862


6. Asher & Adams’ Nebraska ­ 1872


7. Gray’s Nebraska – 1873


8. J.H Noteware’s Nebraska ­ 1873


9. Wight’s Nebraska – 1876


10. Gray’s Nebraska – 1878


11. Mitchell’s Kansas and Nebraska ­ 1879


12. Gray’s Nebraska – 1880


13. Rand McNally’s Nebraska – 1881


14. Rand McNally’s Nebraska – 1882


15. Bradley’s Nebraska – 1884


16. Cram’s Nebraska – 1884


17. Cram’s Nebraska – 1885


18. Everts & Kirk’s Nebraska – 1885


19. Cram’s Nebraska – 1886


20. Phillips & Hunt’s Kansas and Nebraska – 1888


21. Cram’s Nebraska – 1894


22. Century’s Nebraska – 1897


23. Cram’s Nebraska – 1899


24. Matthews Northrup’s Nebraska – 1899


25. Rand McNally’s Nebraska – 1900


26. Tunison’s Nebraska ­ 1901

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