Frontier County is available for adoption.

 If you have a local connection to Frontier County or an interest in Nebraska in general,
 Please consider joining the NEGenWeb as a County Coordinator.

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 We have many genealogical resources available here.
 We would appreciate any contributions you would like to make to this site.

 Types of materials we are looking to include on this website are:
 family histories,  biographies, photos, obituaries, tombstone photos
 & inscriptions, cemetery lists, etc.

 

Frontier County, Nebraska

Frontier County was officially organized on January 17, 1872, carved from Nebraska’s unorganized territory during the westward settlement of the 1870s. Its name reflects its position along the early frontier line of the state, where homesteaders, ranchers, and freighters pushed into the southwest plains.

The county seat, Stockville, emerged as an early administrative and community center, serving the scattered ranches and homestead claims that dotted the open prairie. Through the late 19th century, settlers established small towns, schools, and churches while developing a mixed economy of cattle ranching and dryland farming—patterns still visible in the county’s landscape today.

Frontier County’s early records—marriage, probate, land, military, and naturalization—begin in the 1870s, offering rich documentation for researchers tracing families who built their lives on Nebraska’s southwestern plains