Knox County,
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Welcome to the Knox County Nebraska Times







This part of Nebraska was inhabited by native Americans until, June 7, 1856 when a group of men started a settlement called L'eau Qui Court Company. This company fail and was reorganized as the Niobrara Township Company. The Territorial Legislature of Nebraska (1856 - 1857) created L'eau Qui Court County with the count seat being in Niobrara. The State Legislature passed and act in 1873, renaming the county to Knox. The county seat was moved nearer to the center of the county in 1902. The new town was called "Center."

The county is about 1140 square miles with 2.8 percent  of that being water.

As the table shows the county had large gains in population from 1870 to 1910. There were two decades with small gains. The population has been in a downward spiral since 1930.


See the Knox County NEGenWeb Project for family histories.


Knox County's Population Per Decade

Year Population Gain/Loss
 1860  152  
 1870  261  109
 1880  3666  3404
 1890  8582  4916
 1900  14343  5761
 1910  18358  4015
 1920  18894  536
 1930  19110  216
 1940  16478  2632
 1950  14820  1658
 1960  13300  1520
 1970  11723  1577
 1980  11457  266
 1990  9534  1923
 2000  9374  160
 2010  8701  673

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