Cherry County, Nebraska

Cherry County is a located in the  of. It was named for Lt. Samuel A. Cherry, a popular Army officer who was stationed at Fort Niobrara and who had been killed in South Dakota in 1881. As of, the population is 6,148. Its is.

In the Nebraska system, Cherry County is represented by the prefix 66 (it had the sixty-sixth-largest number of vehicles registered in the state when the license plate system was established in ).

Geography
According to the, the county has a total area of 15,565 (6,010 ) making it by far the largest county in land area in Nebraska. The county is so large, in fact, that it is bigger than the entire. 15,438 km² (5,961 sq mi) of it is land and 127 km² (49 sq mi) of it (0.82%) is water.


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Demographics
As of the of 2000, there were 6,148 people, 2,508 households, and 1,710 families residing in the county. The was 0.39/km² (1.02/sq mi). There were 3,220 housing units at an average density of 0/km² (0/sq mi). The racial makeup of the county was 94.19%, 0.07% or , 3.25% , 0.42% , 0.02% , 0.33% from , and 1.72% from two or more races. 0.93% of the population were or  of any race.

There were 2,508 households out of which 31.70% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 57.90% were living together, 6.90% had a female householder with no husband present, and 31.80% were non-families. 28.90% of all households were made up of individuals and 12.70% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.42 and the average family size was 2.98.

In the county the population was spread out with 27.00% under the age of 18, 6.20% from 18 to 24, 25.50% from 25 to 44, 24.00% from 45 to 64, and 17.30% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females there were 98.80 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.60 males.

The median income for a household in the county was $29,268, and the median income for a family was $36,500. Males had a median income of $23,705 versus $17,277 for females. The for the county was $15,943. About 9.60% of families and 12.30% of the population were below the, including 13.40% of those under age 18 and 14.20% of those age 65 or over.

City and villages

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Time Zones
Cherry County is in both the Central and Mountain time zones, due to the county's size. The far eastern half of the county, including county seat, is in the Central Time Zone, while the western 2/3s of the county, including , is in the Mountain Time Zone.