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. 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

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

1. 1. Colton’s Kansas and Nebraska – 1859

1. 1. Johnson’s Iowa and Nebraska – 1862

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

1. 1. Asher & Adams’ Nebraska ­ 1872

1. 1. Gray’s Nebraska – 1873

1. 1. J.H Noteware’s Nebraska ­ 1873

1. 1. Wight’s Nebraska – 1876

1. 1. Gray’s Nebraska – 1878

1. 1. Mitchell’s Kansas and Nebraska ­ 1879

1. 1. Gray’s Nebraska – 1880

1. 1. Rand McNally’s Nebraska – 1881

1. 1. Rand McNally’s Nebraska – 1882

1. 1. Bradley’s Nebraska – 1884

1. 1. Cram’s Nebraska – 1884

1. 1. Cram’s Nebraska – 1885

1. 1. Everts & Kirk’s Nebraska – 1885

1. 1. Cram’s Nebraska – 1886

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

1. 1. Cram’s Nebraska – 1894

1. 1. Century’s Nebraska – 1897

1. 1. Cram’s Nebraska – 1899

1. 1. Matthews Northrup’s Nebraska – 1899

1. 1. Rand McNally’s Nebraska – 1900

1. 1. Tunison’s Nebraska ­ 1901

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