Back مقاطعة غيج (نبراسكا) Arabic Gage County, Nebraska BAR Гейдж Bulgarian গেইজ কাউন্টি, নেব্রাস্কা BPY Gage Gông (Nebraska) CDO Гейдж (гуо, Небраска) CE Gage County CEB Gage County, Nebraska Welsh Gage County German Condado de Gage Spanish
Gage County | |
|---|---|
 Gage County Courthouse in Beatrice, 1976 | |
 Location within the U.S. state of Nebraska | |
 Nebraska's location within the U.S. | |
| Coordinates: 40°16′N 96°41′W / 40.27°N 96.69°W | |
| Country |  United States |
| State |  Nebraska |
| Founded | 1855 (authorized) 1857 (organized) |
| Seat | Beatrice |
| Largest city | Beatrice |
| Area | |
| • Total | 860 sq mi (2,200 km2) |
| • Land | 852 sq mi (2,210 km2) |
| • Water | 8.5 sq mi (22 km2) 1.0% |
| Population | |
| • Estimate (2021) | 21,616 |
| • Density | 25.4/sq mi (9.8/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC−6 (Central) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−5 (CDT) |
| Congressional district | 3rd |
| Website | www |
Gage County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 21,704.[1] Its county seat is Beatrice.[2] The county was created in 1855 and organized in 1857.[3][4][5] It was formed from land taken from the Otoe in an 1854 treaty. The county was named for William D. Gage, a Methodist minister who served as the first chaplain of the Nebraska Territorial Legislature.[6][7]
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 established in 1922).
- ^ "County Population Totals: 2020-2021". Census.gov. US Census Bureau. Retrieved October 21, 2022.
- ^ "Find a County". National Association of Counties. Archived from the original on May 31, 2011. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
- ^ Fitzpatrick, Lilian Linder (1925). Nebraska Place-Names. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Studies in Language, Literature, and Criticism. p. 63. Retrieved December 18, 2014.
- ^ Andreas, A. T. (1882). "Andreas' History of the State of Nebraska". The Kansas Collection. Archived from the original on January 5, 2003. Retrieved December 18, 2014.
- ^ "Gage County". Nebraska Association of County Officials. Retrieved December 18, 2014.
- ^ Gage County History (archived)
- ^ Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Govt. Print. Off. p. 133.
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