Frontier County

Also known as Frontier County, Nebraska, Frontier County, NE

county in Nebraska, United States

Key facts

Country: United States
State: Nebraska
Seat: Stockville
Largest city: Curtis
Total: 980 sq mi (2,500 km )
Land: 975 sq mi (2,530 km )
Water: 5.5 sq mi (14 km ) 0.6%
Estimate 2025: 2,655
Density: 2.58/sq mi (0.998/km )
Time zone: UTC−6 ( Central )
Summer dst: UTC−5 ( CDT )
Congressional district: 3rd
Website: www .co .frontier .ne .us

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Frontier County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 2,519. Its county seat is Stockville.

In the Nebraska license plate system, Frontier County is represented by the prefix 60 (it had the sixtieth-largest number of vehicles registered in the county when the license plate system was established in 1922). However, Frontier County has only been a frontier county by the United States Census Bureau's definition (fewer than 6 people per square mile) since approximately 1950.