Map of Box Butte County, Nebraska

Box Butte County overview:
Name:	Box Butte County
FIPS code:	31-013
State:	Nebraska
Founded:	1886
Seat:	Alliance
Largest city:	Alliance
Total Area:	1,078 sq mi (2,790 km²)
Land Area:	1,075 sq mi (2,780 km²)
Total Population:	10,604
Population Density:	10.1/sq mi (3.9/km²)
Time zone:	UTC−7 (Mountain)
Summer Time Zone (DST):	UTC−6 (MDT)
Website:	boxbuttecounty.us

Box Butte County location map. Where is Box Butte County?

Box Butte County location on the U.S. Map. Where is Box Butte County. — Location of Box Butte County in the the United States.

Box Butte County location on the Nebraska map. Where is Box Butte County. — Location of Box Butte County in Nebraska.

History

Box Butte County was formed as part of a series of partitionings of the Nebraska Panhandle. In 1883, the Nebraska legislature divided the Panhandle into two counties, Sioux and Cheyenne. In 1885 the original Sioux County was divided into three counties: Sioux, Dawes, and Sheridan. Because of the distance to the county seat of Chadron, residents of southern Dawes County asked that it be split off; in 1886, the legislature created Box Butte County. The new county was named after a butte in the northern part of the county; prior to the county’s formation, its name had been used in advertisements by railroad companies seeking to entice settlers to the area.

In the Nebraska license plate system, Box Butte County is represented by the prefix 65 (it had the 65th-largest number of vehicles registered in the county when the license plate system was established in 1922).

Box Butte County Road Map

Box Butte CountyStreet Map. — Street map of Box Butte County, Nebraska. Source: OpenStreetMap (OSM)

Box Butte CountyMap — Box Butte Countypolitical map.

Geography

According to the US Census Bureau, the county has an area of 1,078 square miles (2,790 km), of which 1,075 square miles (2,780 km) is land and 2.5 square miles (6.5 km) (11%) is water.