Dawson County was organized July 11,1871, by proclamation of Acting Governor Wm. H. James.

 It is situated in the southwestern portion of the State, 231 miles west of the Missouri River, and is bounded on the north by Custer, east by Buffalo, south by the Platte River, Gosper and Frontier Counties, and west by Lincoln County, containing 1,008 square miles, at an average elevation above the Sea level of 2,370 feet.

Johnson's History of Nebraska

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