454 people (2024 Census estimate, +6.1% since 2020)
711 square miles of land · 1 people per square mile
“Highest” and “lowest” are just order, not grades: a high rank for poverty or hazard losses means more of it. Each figure's source is in its section below.
1 active community water system list Blaine County in the area they serve, reporting 103 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| DUNNING, VILLAGE OF groundwater · local government · NE3100901 | 103 served |
Source: U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), active community systems, . Look up any system's violations and test results with EPA's search using its ID.
No county jail figure in the national data for Blaine County — not gathered, never hidden. Some counties share a regional jail or have none.
1 school district has its office in Blaine County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $3.5 million — $3.1 million to run schools, about $37,268 per student, plus $324,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.5 million local (mostly property tax), $602,000 state, $197,000 federal. Long-term debt: $248,000.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Annual Survey of School System Finances. Districts are listed by the county of their main office; some serve neighboring counties too.
Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps 2025 (University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute), which gathers federal data (CDC, Census, and others); measures cover different recent years. Blank lines aren't reported for small counties.
Overall risk: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Blaine County about $695,279 a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
19 bridges in Blaine County: 11 in good condition, 6 fair, and 2 poor (10.5%). “Poor” means a main part — the deck, the beams, or the supports — is rated 4 or lower on the federal 0–9 scale. It doesn't mean unsafe to drive; unsafe bridges are closed.
| RAILROD ST over MIDDLE LOUP RIVER · built 1972 | 10 vehicles a day |
| PRIVATE RD over MIDDLE LOUP RIVER · built 1950 | 4 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $-283,655 of work in Blaine County in fiscal 2025, about $-658 per resident — to the county, cities, schools, hospitals, nonprofits and others.
Source: USAspending.gov, grants by place of performance, fiscal 2025 (Oct. 2024 to Sept. 2025). Search it by county to see each award.
From Grants.gov: posted grants listing county governments as eligible, soonest deadline first; research-only and overseas programs left out; list updated 2026-10-13, refreshed weekly. 62 are open in all. Cities, towns, school districts and nonprofits have their own lists there.
Registration deadlines, early voting and polling places for Nebraska are on the federal site vote.gov, which links to the state's official election office.
The budget, property tax rates, audits, local officials and offices for Blaine County come from the county's own records, which we haven't gathered — not gathered, never hidden. See what a full county site looks like, or ask to have Blaine County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Loup County (25 mi) · Thomas County (28 mi) · Brown County (30 mi) · Logan County (35 mi) · Custer County (40 mi) · Rock County (44 mi).