BlockLiberty Precinct
The complete chapter on this precinct from History of Richardson County, Nebraska : Its People, Industries and Institutions, published 1917. 191 words, covering 1 settlement. 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
1 settlementWhat 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Verdon | 13 | 16 | - | - |
Settlements in this township
1 placeEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. It is named in the chapter.
The chapter
191 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from History of Richardson County, Nebraska : Its People, Industries and Institutions, published 1917. 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.
Liberty Precinct
Liberty precinct lies immediately north of Salem, and was part of Salem and Aluddy precincts until 1869, when the county commissioners in revising precinct boundaries, determined, as far as practicable, to constitute each township of lands within the county a voting precinct. Thus, Liberty came into existence and consists of the territory embraced in township 2 of range No. 15. Eacli township in the county at this time. 1917, constitutes a voting precinct.
The precinct occupies the divide between the ^[uddy and Xemaha. The raih'oad village of Verdon, located in this precinct with the coming of the Missouri- Pacific railroad in 1882, has grown to be one of the very prettiest of the towns of the county and has a fine business section, well built up. and many beautiful homes.
The Muddy creek flows through the northern part of the precinct. Some of the earliest settlements of the county were made in this precinct. Of these were: Mr. Borden, on the Mudd\-, who came into the precincf in 1855 ; John and Charles Cornell, who came in 1857: John S. Ewing, William Kinser and Robert Worley, who settled there in 1858.
Provenance
Text from History of Richardson County, Nebraska : Its People, Industries and Institutions, published 1917, 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.