Local Wiki
Thurston County
Official County Record
Official source, last checked Sep 14, 2026- County Board meets
- Every other Monday at 9:00 AM.
- Meeting location
- Thurston County Courthouse, 106 South 5th Street, Pender, NE 68047.
- County Clerk / Election Commissioner
- Steven Schneider · (402) 385-2343 · clerk@thurstoncountyne.gov
- Agendas posted at
- https://thurstoncountyne.gov/board_meetings/agenda.aspx
- Chairman, Board of Supervisors
- Board of Supervisors (township organization), 7 members elected by district (Districts 1-7). Chairman: Davin French (District 5), confirmed via the board's own February 2026 meeting minutes and the Nebraska Association of County Officials' directory — an earlier, internally garbled research claim naming a different chairman was not used.
Other Known Local Governments Here
These local governments — special-purpose districts, and smaller incorporated cities and towns — are known to exist in this area, but haven’t been individually researched yet, so there’s no meeting info or contacts on file. Listed here as a starting point if you want to look into one yourself; where we could confirm an official website, the name links there. More may exist here than are listed.
- Pender Public Schools · School District
- Umo N Ho N Nation Public Schs · School District
- Walthill Public Schools · School District
- Winnebago Public Schools District 17 · School District
Source: NCES Common Core of Data (via Urban Institute), 2022 directory — regular school districts only
- Lower Elkhorn NRD · Utility District
- Papio-Missouri River NRD · Utility District
Source: Nebraska Natural Resources District (NRD) — State of Nebraska GIS, county resolved via polygon intersection against Census county boundaries
- Emerson · Village
- Pender · Village
- Rosalie · Village
- Thurston · Village
- Walthill · Village
- Winnebago · Village
Source: U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program, 2024