{"id":6028,"date":"2023-07-19T21:07:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T21:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/?p=6028"},"modified":"2026-08-15T06:36:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T06:36:38","slug":"grant-county-nebraska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/grant-county-nebraska\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant County, Nebraska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grant County is a county in Nebraska, United States, in the Sandhills region in the north-central part of the state. It had a population of 611 at the 2020 census and covers 783 square miles (2,029 km2) centred near 41&deg;55&prime;N 101&deg;45&prime;W.<\/p>\n<p>Hyannis is the county seat, and its postal code is 69350. The county has one incorporated village, two unincorporated communities, and one ghost town site. Grant County is in the Central time zone.<\/p>\n<h2>Towns &amp; Villages in Grant County<\/h2>\n<p>Grant County has one incorporated place &mdash; the village of Hyannis, its county seat &mdash; plus the unincorporated communities of Ashby and Whitman and the ghost town of Duluth, whose townsite survives only as a rail siding name. &ldquo;Unincorp.&rdquo; below marks a place with no municipal government of its own.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tv-table-scroll\">\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Place<\/th>\n<th>Type<\/th>\n<th>Pop.<\/th>\n<th>ZIP<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Hyannis<\/td>\n<td>Village &middot; seat<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>69350<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ashby<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>69333<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Whitman<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>69366<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Duluth<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<h2>ZIP Codes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>69350 &mdash; Hyannis (county seat)<\/li>\n<li>69333 &mdash; Ashby<\/li>\n<li>69366 &mdash; Whitman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Duluth has no ZIP code of its own; mail there is served through the Hyannis post office. All three of the county&#8217;s active ZIP codes cover large rural delivery areas rather than dense population &mdash; each post office serves ranch addresses scattered across many square miles of surrounding grassland.<\/p>\n<h2>Geography<\/h2>\n<p>Grant County lies entirely within the Nebraska Sandhills, a landscape of grass-stabilized sand dunes running east to west across the county. The dunes trap groundwater rather than shed it to rivers, so the county has few flowing streams but many small, shallow lakes and wetlands fed by the underlying Ogallala Aquifer. Cattle ranching depends on that groundwater; center-pivot and sub-irrigated hay meadows sit in the low ground between the dune ridges. There are no incorporated cities of any size and no traffic-light intersections anywhere in the county, typical of the central Sandhills.<\/p>\n<p>Grant County borders <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/cherry-county\/\">Cherry County<\/a> to the north, <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/hooker-county\/\">Hooker County<\/a> to the east, <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/arthur-county\/\">Arthur County<\/a> to the south, <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/garden-county\/\">Garden County<\/a> to the west, and <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/sheridan-county-nebraska\/\">Sheridan County<\/a> to the northwest.<\/p>\n<h2>Demographics<\/h2>\n<p>Grant County had 611 residents at the 2020 census, making it one of the least populated counties in Nebraska. Hyannis is the largest community, followed by Ashby. Density works out to less than one person per square mile, among the lowest of any county in the state. County-level median household income figures are not verified here; Nebraska&#8217;s statewide median household income is the Nebraska median of $74,590 (2023 ACS), and sparsely populated ranching counties like Grant typically post small-sample estimates well below the state figure.<\/p>\n<h2>Economy &amp; Local Life<\/h2>\n<p>Cattle ranching is the backbone of Grant County&#8217;s economy, run across large Sandhills grass pastures suited to grazing rather than row crops. Ranch operations here tend to be large by Nebraska standards, since Sandhills grass supports far fewer cattle per acre than the state&#8217;s eastern cropland. Hay production supports the ranches through winter. Hyannis serves as the county&#8217;s trade center, with the county courthouse, a K-12 public school, and the businesses that supply the surrounding ranch operations. The public school&#8217;s athletic programs and the county fair are focal points of local social life in a county too sparsely populated to support much else in the way of public entertainment.<\/p>\n<h2>History<\/h2>\n<p>Grant County was organized on March 31, 1887, and named for Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States and former Union Army general. Like its Sandhills neighbors, it was settled later than eastern Nebraska because the dune terrain was unsuited to the row-crop farming that drew earlier homesteaders; ranching, made possible by the Kinkaid Act&#8217;s larger Sandhills homestead allotments, shaped its settlement instead. Duluth, once a small rail-siding community, declined over the twentieth century as rural population thinned across the Sandhills and is no longer a functioning settlement.<\/p>\n<h2>Getting There<\/h2>\n<p>Nebraska Highway 2, part of the Sandhills Journey Scenic Byway, runs through Hyannis and is the county&#8217;s main road link east and west across the region.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alliance, Nebraska &mdash; about 60 miles northwest<\/li>\n<li>Ogallala, Nebraska &mdash; about 65 miles south<\/li>\n<li>North Platte, Nebraska &mdash; about 100 miles southeast<\/li>\n<li>Valentine, Nebraska &mdash; about 90 miles northeast<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The nearest commercial airport is North Platte Regional Airport (LBF).<\/p>\n<h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Where is Grant County, Nebraska?<\/strong><br \/>It is in the Nebraska Sandhills, in the north-central part of the state, centred near 41&deg;55&prime;N 101&deg;45&prime;W.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the population of Grant County?<\/strong><br \/>611 people, at the 2020 census.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How big is Grant County?<\/strong><br \/>783 square miles (2,029 km2), most of it Sandhills grassland.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the county seat of Grant County?<\/strong><br \/>Hyannis is the county seat.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many towns are in Grant County?<\/strong><br \/>One incorporated village (Hyannis) and two unincorporated communities (Ashby and Whitman), plus the former townsite of Duluth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What ZIP codes are in Grant County?<\/strong><br \/>69350 (Hyannis), 69333 (Ashby), and 69366 (Whitman).<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is Grant County&#8217;s main industry?<\/strong><br \/>Cattle ranching on Sandhills grass pasture, supported by hay production.<\/p>\n<p>More counties in this state: <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/category\/nebraska\/\">Towns and villages in Nebraska<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grant County is a county in Nebraska, United States, in the Sandhills region in the north-central part of the state. It had a population of 611 at the 2020 census and covers 783 square miles (2,029 km2) centred near 41&deg;55&prime;N 101&deg;45&prime;W. Hyannis is the county seat, and its postal code is 69350. 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