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Line 1: {{Short description\|County in Nebraska, United States}} {{Use mdy dates\|date=~~November~~April ~~2021~~2024}}▼ ~~{{Other uses\|Fillmore (disambiguation){{!}}Fillmore}}~~ ▲{{Use mdy dates\|date=November 2021}} {{Infobox settlement \| name = Fillmore County Line 32 ⟶ 31: \| elevation_max_ft = 1555 \| elevation_min_ft = 1171 \| population_density_sq_mi = ~~auto~~9.7 \| population_as_of = 2020 \| ~~pop~~ population = 5551 \| area_code = [[Area codes 402 and 531\|402/531]] \| area_code_type = [[North American Numbering Plan\|Area code]] Line 48 ⟶ 47: }} '''Fillmore County''' is a county located in the [[U.S. state]] of [[Nebraska]]. As of the [[2020 United States Census]], the population was 5,551.<ref>{{cite web\|title=Fillmore County, Nebraska\|url=https://data.census.gov/profile/Fillmore_County,_Nebraska?g=050XX00US31059\|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]\|access-date=June 17, 2023}}</ref> Its [[county seat]] is [[Geneva, Nebraska\|Geneva]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx\|access-date=7 June 7, 2011\|title=Find a County\|publisher=National Association of Counties\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110531210815/http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx\|archive-date=May 31, 2011}}</ref> The county was named for President [[Millard Fillmore]]. In the Nebraska [[Vehicle registration plates of Nebraska\|license plate]] system, Fillmore County is represented by the prefix 34 (it had the thirty-fourth largest number of vehicles registered in the county when the license plate system was established in 1922). Line 59 ⟶ 58: In 1871, the Burlington and Missouri laid its tracks through the area. A recent change in federal law allowed them to alter their route, shifting it about {{convert\|5\|mi\|0\|spell=in}} south of their original surveyed path. This placed the route on more level country, reducing the cost of cutting and bridging; it also shifted the line from York County to northern Fillmore County.<ref name=gaffney-3/> The county was formally organized in 1871;<ref>{{cite book\|url=http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=englishunsllc\|title=Nebraska Place-Names\|last=Fitzpatrick\|first=Lilian Linder\|publisher=University of Nebraska Studies in Language, Literature, and Criticism\|location=Lincoln\|date=1925\|page=59\|access-date=December 14, 2014}}</ref> up to this time, it had been administered from, and taxed by, [[Saline County, Nebraska\|Saline County]], its neighbor to the east. In April, an election was held to choose officers to organize the county; at this time, it was decided to place the county seat in the county's center. The town site was surveyed and platted, and given the name "Henry". It could not be occupied, since it was on school land owned by the ~~State~~state; an act of the ~~Legislature~~legislature was necessary before the land could be sold.<ref name=andreas-1/><ref name=gaffney-4-5/><ref name=andreas-3/> The ~~Legislature~~legislature passed a bill in the summer of 1872 to allow sale of the school lands. At about that time, the new county seat's name was changed from "Henry" to "Geneva", at the suggestion of the daughter of a local settler, who wanted it named after her family's old home of [[Geneva, Illinois]].<ref name=andreas-1/><ref name=gaffney-5/><ref name=geneva-name/> The county grew rapidly through the first years of the 1870s. Three towns were established along the Burlington line; in keeping with the railroad's practice of naming their towns alphabetically, they were dubbed Exeter, Fairmont, and Grafton.<ref name=alphabetical/> By 1873, the entire county had been "thickly settled".<ref name=andreas-1/> Its growth suffered a check in the mid-1870s, due to the worldwide depression following the [[Panic of 1873]] and an infestation of grasshoppers in the late summer of 1874.<ref name=andreas-1/><ref name=gaffney-15/> Line 124 ⟶ 123: \|estref= \|align-fn=center \|footnote=US Decennial Census<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html\|title=US Decennial Census\|publisher=US Census Bureau\|access-date=December 7, 2014}}</ref><br>1790-1960<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://mapserver.lib.virginia.edu/\|title=Historical Census Browser\|publisher=University of Virginia Library\|access-date=December 7, 2014\|archive-date=August 11, 2012\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120811110448/http://mapserver.lib.virginia.edu/\|url-status=dead}}</ref> 1900-1990<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.census.gov/population/cencounts/ne190090.txt\|title=Population of Counties by Decennial Census: 1900 to 1990\|publisher=US Census Bureau\|access-date=December 7, 2014}}</ref><br>1990-2000<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.census.gov/population/www/cen2000/briefs/phc-t4/tables/tab02.pdf \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100327165705/http://www.census.gov/population/www/cen2000/briefs/phc-t4/tables/tab02.pdf \|archive-date=~~2010-03-~~March 27, 2010 \|url-status=live\|title=Census 2000 PHC-T-4. Ranking Tables for Counties: 1990 and 2000\|publisher=US Census Bureau\|access-date=December 7, 2014}}</ref> 2010<ref name=QF>{{cite web\|title=State & County QuickFacts\|url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/31/31059.html\|publisher=US Census Bureau\|access-date=September 19, 2013\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607145902/http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/31/31059.html\|archive-date=June 7, 2011}}</ref> }} As of the [[2000 United States Census]],<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.census.gov\|publisher=UStates Census Bureau\|access-date=31 January 31, 2008\|title=U.S. Census website}}</ref> there were 6,634 people, 2,689 households, and 1,801 families in the county. The [[population density]] was {{convert\|12\|/mi2\|/km2\|disp=preunit\|people \|people\|}}. There were 2,990 housing units at an average density of {{convert\|5\|/mi2\|/km2\|adj=pre\|units }}. The racial makeup of the county was 97.75% [[Race (United States Census)\|White]], 0.21% [[Race (United States Census)\|Black]] or [[Race (United States Census)\|African American]], 0.44% [[Race (United States Census)\|Native American]], 0.06% [[Race (United States Census)\|Asian]], 0.02% [[Race (United States Census)\|Pacific Islander]], 0.83% from [[Race (United States Census)\|other races]], and 0.69% from two or more races. 1.66% of the population were [[Race (United States Census)\|Hispanic]] or [[Race (United States Census)\|Latino]] of any race. 48.6% were of [[Germans\|German]], 10.4% [[Czechs\|Czech]], 7.1% [[Irish people\|Irish]] and 7.0% [[English people\|English]] ancestry. There were 2,689 households, out of which 30.20% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.10% were [[Marriage\|married couples]] living together, 5.00% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.00% were non-families. 30.20% of all households were made up of individuals, and 16.30% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.37 and the average family size was 2.95. Line 195 ⟶ 194: ==Politics== Fillmore County voters have been reliably Republican since the beginning, selecting the Republican Party candidate in 80% of national elections (as of ~~2020~~2024). {{PresHead\|place=Fillmore County, Nebraska\|source=<ref>[http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS Election Results]</ref>}} <!-- PresRow should be {{PresRow\|Year\|Winning party\|GOP vote #\|Dem vote #\|3rd party vote #\|State}} --> {{PresRow\|2024\|Republican\|2,315\|662\|47\|Nebraska}} {{PresRow\|2020\|Republican\|2,359\|693\|96\|Nebraska}} {{PresRow\|2016\|Republican\|2,130\|613\|198\|Nebraska}} Line 237: <references> <ref name=alphabetical>Cordes, Henry J. [http://www.ble-t.org/pr/news/headline.asp?id=28227 "A railroad history lesson: Union Pacific and Burlington Northern".] [http://www.ble-t.org/default.asp Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen]; originally appeared in ''Omaha World-Herald'', 8 November 8, 2009. Retrieved 8 May 8, 2013. The three towns listed formed part of a sequence: Crete, Dorchester, Exeter, Fairmont, Grafton, Harvard, Inland, Juniata, Kenesaw.</ref> <ref name=andreas-1>[https://web.archive.org/web/20030121114512/http://www.kancoll.org/books/andreas_ne/fillmore/fillmore-p1.html Fillmore County, Part 1.] [https://web.archive.org/web/20021029043208/http://www.kancoll.org/books/andreas_ne/hon_tabl.html Andreas's History of the State of Nebraska.] Retrieved 2 May 2, 2013.</ref> <ref name=andreas-3>[https://web.archive.org/web/20030121110927/http://www.kancoll.org/books/andreas_ne/fillmore/fillmore-p3.html Fillmore County, Part 3.] [https://web.archive.org/web/20021029043208/http://www.kancoll.org/books/andreas_ne/hon_tabl.html Andreas's History of the State of Nebraska.] Retrieved 2 May 2, 2013.</ref> <ref name=aquifer>Keech and Dreeszen (1968), pp. L8, L12, L15.</ref> <ref name=archives>{{usurped\|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20080515203650/http://www.nebraskahistory.org/lib-arch/research/public/county_finding_aids/fillmore.pdf "Archives Record: Fillmore County, Nebraska".]}} {{usurped\|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/19990129073714/http://www.nebraskahistory.org/index.htm Nebraska State Historical Society]}}. Retrieved 1 May 1, 2013.</ref> <ref name=bn-1886>[https://web.archive.org/web/20000830123906/http://memory.loc.gov//cgi-bin/map_item.pl "Map of Nebraska, published by the Burlington Route, 1886".] [http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html Library of Congress - American Memory.] Retrieved 8 May 8, 2013.</ref> <ref name=bnsf>[http://www.bnsf.com/customers/pdf/maps/div_ne.pdf Map: Nebraska Operating Division.] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130309070050/http://bnsf.com/customers/pdf/maps/div_ne.pdf \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101027173711/http://bnsf.com/customers/pdf/maps/div_ne.pdf \|archive-date=~~2010-10-~~October 27, 2010 \|url-status=live\|date=9 March 9, 2013}} [http://bnsf.com/ BNSF Railway.] Retrieved 29 April 29, 2013.</ref> <ref name=bussard>Gaffney (1968), p. 1; the Bussard and Whitaker homesteads were located on Section 8, Township 8, Range 3 West of the [[sixth principal meridian]].</ref> <ref name=casde-grafton>[http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/counties/fillmore/grafton/ "Grafton - Fillmore County".] [http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/index.php Nebraska... Our Towns.] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111123132824/http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/index.php \|date=~~2011-11-~~November 23, 2011 }} Retrieved 1 May 1, 2013.</ref> <ref name=casde-milligan>[http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/counties/fillmore/milligan/ "Milligan - Fillmore County".] [http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/index.php Nebraska... Our Towns.] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111123132824/http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/index.php \|date=~~2011-11-~~November 23, 2011 }} Retrieved 8 May 8, 2013.</ref> <ref name=casde-ohiowa>[http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/counties/fillmore/ohiowa/ "Ohiowa - Fillmore County".] [http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/index.php Nebraska... Our Towns.] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111123132824/http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/index.php \|date=~~2011-11-~~November 23, 2011 }} Retrieved 8 May 8, 2013.</ref> <ref name=casde-shickley>[http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/counties/fillmore/shickley/ "Shickley - Fillmore County".] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140829232902/http://casde.unl.edu/history/counties/fillmore/shickley/ \|date=August 29, 2014 }} [http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/index.php Nebraska... Our Towns.] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111123132824/http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/index.php \|date=~~2011-11-~~November 23, 2011 }} Retrieved 1 May 1, 2013.</ref> <ref name=casde-strang>[http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/counties/fillmore/strang/ "Strang - Fillmore County".] [http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/index.php Nebraska... Our Towns.] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111123132824/http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/index.php \|date=~~2011-11-~~November 23, 2011 }} Retrieved 1 May 1, 2013.</ref> <ref name=dor-map>[http://www.transportation.nebraska.gov/maps/docs/county%20maps/pdfs/cntyfill.pdf "General Highway Map: Fillmore County, Nebraska."] [http://www.transportation.nebraska.gov/ Nebraska Department of Roads.] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110905154806/http://www.transportation.nebraska.gov/ \|date=September 5, 2011~~-09-05~~ }} Retrieved 28 April 28, 2013.</ref> <ref name=established>Perkey (2003), p. 67.</ref> <ref name=fillmore-34>[http://www.neded.org/files/research/stathand/asect4.htm "Counties and county seats by license plate prefix numbers".] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151020053612/http://www.neded.org/files/research/stathand/asect4.htm \|date=October 20, 2015 }} [http://www.neded.org/ Nebraska Department of Economic Development.] Retrieved 8 May 8, 2013.</ref> <ref name=gaffney-3>Gaffney (1968), p. 3.</ref> Line 281: <ref name=geneva-name>Sources differ on the source of Geneva's name. Lilian Linder Fitzpatrick, [http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=englishunsllc "Nebraska Place-Names"], 1925, p. 59, states that it was named after [[Geneva, New York]]. Gaffney (1968), p. 5., and Perkey (2003), p. 68, state that Geneva, Illinois was the namesake. Perkey's introduction (p. v) states that he was motivated by Fitzpatrick's work; this suggests that he was aware of the New York hypothesis, and had some reason for choosing Illinois instead.</ref> <ref name=license-history>[http://www.dmv.ne.gov/dvr/plates/plthistory.html "History Of Nebraska Passenger Vehicle License Plates".] [http://www.dmv.ne.gov/index_html Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles.] Retrieved 8 May 8, 2013.</ref> <ref name=loess>Keech and Dreeszen (1968), pp. L1, L4-L5, L7; for age of loess deposits, see Muhs, Daniel R.; Bettis III, E. Arthur; Aleinikoff, John N.; McGeehin, John P.; Beann, Jossh; Skipp, Gary; Marshall, Brian D.; Roberts, Helen M.; Johnson, William C.; and Benton, Rachel (2008), [http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/usgsstaffpub/162 "Origin and paleoclimatic significance of late Quaternary loess in Nebraska: Evidence from stratigraphy, chronology, sedimentology, and geochemistry"], ''USGS Staff—Published Research, Paper 162'', retrieved 28 April 28, 2013.</ref> <ref name=marker-1971>{{usurped\|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20040702173408/http://www.nebraskahistory.org/publish/markers/texts/fillmore_county.htm "1871 Fillmore County 1971".]}} {{usurped\|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/19990129073714/http://www.nebraskahistory.org/index.htm Nebraska State Historical Society]}}. Retrieved 1 May 1, 2013.</ref> <ref name=nomform-milligan>Murphy, D. {{usurped\|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20100620184135/http://nebraskahistory.org/histpres/nebraska/fillmore/FM08-029_Milligan_Aud.pdf "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Cesko-narodni sin/Milligan Auditorium".]}} {{usurped\|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110307215553/http://www.nebraskahistory.org/index.shtml Nebraska State Historical Society.]}} Retrieved 17 May 17, 2013.</ref> <ref name=nomform-stockholm>Hendrickson, Joan E., Norman E. Landgre, and Joni Gilkerson. {{usurped\|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20100620184809/http://nebraskahistory.org/histpres/nebraska/fillmore/FM00-020_Stockholm_Swede_Ch.pdf "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Stockholm Swedish Lutheran Church & Cemetery".]}} {{usurped\|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110307215553/http://www.nebraskahistory.org/index.shtml Nebraska State Historical Society.]}} Retrieved 17 May 17, 2013.</ref> <ref name=rr-2009>[http://www.transportation.nebraska.gov/maps/docs/railroad.pdf "Nebraska Railroads".]{{Dead link\|date=April 2024 \|bot=InternetArchiveBot \|fix-attempted=yes }} [http://www.transportation.nebraska.gov/ Nebraska Department of Roads.] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110905154806/http://www.transportation.nebraska.gov/ \|date=September 5, 2011~~-09-05~~ }} ~~2009-01-~~January 31, 2009. Retrieved 8 May 8, 2013.</ref> <ref name=watershed>[http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/county.cfm?fips_code=31059 "Fillmore County, Nebraska".] [http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/locate/index.cfm Surf Your Watershed.] [http://www.epa.gov/ U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.] {{webarchive \|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020063150/http://www.epa.gov/ \|date=October 20, 2013 }} Retrieved 28 April 28, 2013.</ref> </references> Line 299: ==References== * Gaffney, Wilbur G., ed. (1968). ''The Fillmore County Story''. Copyrighted by Geneva Community Grange No. 403. * Keech, C. F. and V. H. Dreeszen (1968). [http://pubs.usgs.gov/wsp/1839l/report.pdf "Geology and Ground-Water Resources of Fillmore County, Nebraska".] [http://www.usgs.gov/ United States Geological Survey.] Retrieved 28 April 28, 2013. * Perkey, Elton A. (2003). ''Perkey's Nebraska Place Names''. Nebraska State Historical Society; revised edition. ==External links== * [http://www.fillmorecounty.org/ Fillmore County Official Web Site] {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020126030244/http://www.fillmorecounty.org/ \|date=January 26, 2002 }} {{Geographic Location