BlockLewis Township
The complete chapter on this precinct from The 'centennial' Sketch of Clay County, Nebraska, published 1876. 123 words, covering 2 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Contents
1 sectionThe section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.
The modern record here
2 settlementsWhat the federal record holds for each settlement inside this precinct: wildfires and storm reports since the 1950s, mineral workings, and museum specimens collected nearby. These are counted within a few miles of each settlement, so neighbours share them and the columns are deliberately not added up. Every row links to the settlement's own page, where each figure is broken out.
| Settlement | Fires | Storm reports | Mines and quarries | Specimens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saronville | 6 | 23 | - | - |
| Verona | 12 | 1 | - | - |
Settlements in this township
2 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. None of the 2 is named in the chapter: they were founded later or were never more than a post office.
The chapter
123 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from The 'centennial' Sketch of Clay County, Nebraska, published 1876. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.
Lewis Township
H, U, Peter«ou a native of S weden settled io this prechict in ttie sprins; of 1S70. Louis Peterson and Jonas Joliii son of the same naMonalitv came iu soon after, John S, Lewis, ofViririnia. after whom this precinct was named, setUed April 20 1872,
The tirst election in the precinct was for Member of Constitutional convention in May 1875, all of the prccints in the county at this time adopted names, it being <he first election .held after the county was divided into sixteen precinct x. Lewis then polled 39 and uow polls 60 votes; I. C, Christianson. a Dane wa th( tirst of that nationality in the precinct which WdS Nov, lirst 1873 the Danes nunber about sixteen m the county.
Provenance
Text from The 'centennial' Sketch of Clay County, Nebraska, published 1876, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.