4,468 people (2024 Census estimate, −3.5% since 2020)
719 square miles of land · 6 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.
8 active community water systems list Furnas County in the area they serve, reporting 4,091 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| CAMBRIDGE, CITY OF buys groundwater · local government · NE3106504 | 1,071 served |
| ARAPAHOE, CITY OF groundwater · local government · NE3106506 | 1,026 served |
| OXFORD, VILLAGE OF groundwater · local government · NE3106502 | 719 served |
| BEAVER CITY, CITY OF groundwater · local government · NE3106505 | 537 served |
| BIC JOINT WATER AGENCY groundwater · local government · NE3121227 | 355 served |
| HOLBROOK, VILLAGE OF buys groundwater · local government · NE3120042 | 201 served |
| EDISON, VILLAGE OF groundwater · local government · NE3106503 | 111 served |
| WILSONVILLE, VILLAGE OF groundwater · local government · NE3106501 | 71 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.
About 3 people were held in Furnas County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 112 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 4.
Source: Vera Institute of Justice, Incarceration Trends (built from federal Bureau of Justice Statistics jail surveys). Counties without their own jail, or that share one, may show no figure.
3 school districts have their office in Furnas County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $8.9 million — $8.5 million to run schools, about $22,240 per student, plus $204,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $7.1 million local (mostly property tax), $1.1 million state, $628,000 federal. Long-term debt: $959,000.
Spent $6.3 million — $5.3 million to run schools, about $15,857 per student, plus $797,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.8 million local (mostly property tax), $806,000 state, $1.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $10 million.
Spent $5.5 million — $5.1 million to run schools, about $17,785 per student, plus $369,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.6 million local (mostly property tax), $1.5 million state, $458,000 federal. Long-term debt: $360,000.
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: Relatively Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Furnas County about $13.5 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
168 bridges in Furnas County: 106 in good condition, 49 fair, and 13 poor (7.7%). “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.
| US6/US34 over ELK CREEK · built 1936 | 2,555 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY HIGHWAY over CAMBRIDGE-OXFORD-ORLEANS · built 1935 | 100 vehicles a day |
| ROAD 724 over DEER CREEK · built 1935 | 40 vehicles a day |
| ROAD 721 over TURKEY CREEK TRIB · built 1935 | 30 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY HIGHWAY over CAMBRIDGE-OXFORD-ORLEANS · built 1935 | 30 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY HIGHWAY over CAMBRIDGE-OXFORD-ORLEANS · built 1935 | 25 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $11.3 million of work in Furnas County in fiscal 2025, about $2,442 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 Furnas 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 Furnas County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Gosper County (22 mi) · Harlan County (27 mi) · Norton County, KS (28 mi) · Red Willow County (30 mi) · Phelps County (35 mi) · Frontier County (35 mi).