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Nebraska County Countdown: #8 Hall

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Welcome to Hall County, in the center of it all! Formed in 1858, Hall County was either named after the territory’s first chief justice Augustus Hall, or just some guy who lived in the area at the time who subsequently moved to Colorado. Hall County is unique in that it has the highest density of tornado activity in Nebraska, with 121 tornadoes per 1,000 square miles (2,600 km2), about 4 times the state average. That sure makes me want to move there! Hall County is also the fourth most populous county in the state. Guess it’s all the tornadoes. Maybe they’re all residential construction workers? Or tornado insurance salesmen?

The area that is now Hall County was once the center of power of the Pawnee Indian Tribe. The Pawnee where the dominant force in the area from northern Kansas up into the edges of present day South Dakota. Encounters with settlers were particularly detrimental to the Pawnee because they lived in villages and practiced agriculture, making the spread of smallpox and cholera amongst them promulgate much faster. Once weakened by disease, the Sioux, the main enemy of the Pawnee, marauded throughout their territory in a war of extermination. Numbering over 25000 in 1831, by 1872 there were less than a thousand Pawnee still living.

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