Saline County

Also known as Saline County, Nebraska, Saline County, NE

county in Nebraska, United States

Key facts

Country: United States
State: Nebraska
Established: March 16, 1855
Organized: February 18, 1867
County seat: Wilber
Largest city: Crete
Total: 576 sq mi (1,490 km )
Land: 574 sq mi (1,490 km )
Water: 2.3 sq mi (6.0 km )
Estimate 2025: 14,996
Density: 24.9/sq mi (9.61/km )
Time zone: UTC−6 ( Central )
Summer dst: UTC−5 ( CDT )

Article

Saline County (/sə.ˈliːn/ suh-LEAN) is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 14,292. Its county seat is Wilber.

In the Nebraska license plate system, Saline County is represented by the prefix 22 (it had the twenty-second-largest number of vehicles registered in the state when the license plate system was established in 1922).