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Nebraska has 93 counties.They are listed below by name, FIPS code and license plate prefix. Nebraska's postal abbreviation is NE and its FIPS state code is 31.. When many counties were formed, the bills establishing them did not state the honoree's full name; thus the namesakes of several counties, including Brown, Deuel, Dixon, and possibly Harlan, are known only by their surnames.
County government in Nebraska is organized in one of two models: Township counties: the county is subdivided into organized townships and governed by a 7-member board of supervisors . This is the form used by 27 counties.
Nebraska established a county-code system for its passenger and motorcycle plates in 1922, with one- or two-digit codes assigned to each county in order of the number of registered vehicles in the county at that time. [6] These codes remained constant through 1950. For 1951, letter codes were used.
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Gage County comprises the Beatrice, NE Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also in the Lincoln-Beatrice, NE Combined Statistical Area. In the Nebraska license plate system , Gage County is represented by the prefix 3 (it was the county with the third-largest number of vehicles registered in the state when the license plate system was ...
The Nebraska State Historical Society conducted a 1990 study of county courthouses in the state. [ 1 ] Courthouses marked with a †dagger are listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
Douglas County is part of the Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA Metropolitan Statistical Area. [ 4 ] In the Nebraska license plate system, Douglas County was represented by the prefix "1" (as it had the largest number of vehicles registered in the state when the license plate system was established in 1922).
The county was formed in 1855, and was organized in 1857. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It was named after Richard Mentor Johnson , who was Vice President of the United States from 1837 to 1841. [ 6 ] In the Nebraska license plate system , Johnson County is represented by the prefix 57 (it had the fifty-seventh-largest number of vehicles registered in the ...