Deuel County, Nebraska

administration
The Deuel County Courthouse , listed on NRHP No. 89002239
US state :	Nebraska
Administrative headquarters :	Chappell
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse 718 3rd P.O. Box 327 Chappell, NE 69129-0327
Foundation :	1889
Made up from:	Cheyenne County
Area code :	001 308
Demographics
Residents :	1941 (2010)
Population density :	1.7 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1142 km²
Water surface :	2 km²
map

Website : www.co.deuel.ne.us

The Deuel County is a county in the US state of Nebraska . The county seat is Chappell , named after John Chappell , the president of a railroad company.

geography

The county is located in western Nebraska, borders Colorado to the south and has an area of 1,142 square kilometers, of which 2 square kilometers are water. It borders on the following counties:

	Garden County
Cheyenne County		Keith County
	Sedgwick County, Colorado	Perkins County

history

Deuel County was formed in 1889 from former parts of Cheyenne County. It was named after Harry Porter Deuel (1836-1914), a railroad manager from Omaha.

Five buildings and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (as of February 10, 2018).

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1890	2893	-
1900	2630	-9.1%
1910	1786	-32.1%
1920	3282	83.8%
1930	3992	21.6%
1940	3580	-10.3%
1950	3330	-7%
1960	3125	-6.2%
1970	2717	-13.1%
1980	2462	-9.4%
1990	2237	-9.1%
2000	2098	-6.2%
2010	1941	-7.5%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 + 2010 Age pyramid of Deuel County (as of 2000)

Menter Farmstead , listed in the NRHP

Fred and Minnie Meyer Sudman House , listed on the NRHP

Wallace W. Waterman Sod House , listed on the NRHP

According to the 2010 census , there were 1,941 people in 925 households in Deuel County. The population density was 1.7 people per square kilometer. Statistically, 2.14 people lived in each of the 925 households.

The racial the population was composed of 97.0 percent white, 0.1 percent African American, 0.5 percent Native American, 0.3 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.2 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 3.9 percent of the population.

21.0 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 55.3 percent were between 18 and 64 and 23.7 percent were 65 years or older. 50.9 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 38,594 USD . The per capita income was $ 22,191. 12.5 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.