Editing Pawnee County, Nebraska (section)

==History==
Pawnee County was formed in 1854.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nacone.org/webpages/counties/countywebs/pawnee.htm|title=Pawnee County|access-date=March 30, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704062006/http://www.nacone.org/webpages/counties/countywebs/pawnee.htm|archive-date=July 4, 2008}}</ref> It was named for the [[Pawnee people|Pawnee]] Native American tribe.<ref>{{cite book|last=Swanton|first=John Reed|title=The Indian Tribes of North America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xpx6WoPz7xIC&pg=PA290|year=1952|publisher=US Government Printing Office|isbn=978-0-8063-1730-4|page=290}}</ref>

On May 30, 1879, the "Irving, Kansas Tornado" passed through Pawnee County. This [[tornado]] measured F4 on the [[Fujita scale]], and had a damage path 800 yards wide and 100 miles.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kansas.net/~rjherman/Irving,%20Kansas%20Tornado.htm |title=File Not Found |website=www.kansas.net |access-date=March 14, 2008}}</ref>