Lincoln County, Nebraska
Lincoln County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 census, the population was 34,676, and was estimated to be 33,303 in 2025. The county seat and the largest city is North Platte.
Despite the county's name, the state capital city of Lincoln is not in or near Lincoln County.
Lincoln County is one of the three counties in the North Platte micropolitan area.
In the Nebraska license plate system, Lincoln County was represented by the prefix "15" (as it had the 15th-largest number of vehicles registered in the state when the license plate system was established in 1922).