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Saunders County was established by an 1856 act of the Nebraska Territorial Legislature and later organized in 1866; its boundaries were redefined in 1858.
The county was originally named after John C. Calhoun; in 1862, during the American Civil War, it was renamed after Nebraska territorial governor Alvin Saunders.
Saunders County is included in the second tier of counties west of the Missouri River and is bounded on the north and east by the Platte River, south by Cass and Lancaster, west by Butler.
It has 483,840 acres of deep, rich, loamy soil. Divided into bottom, plain and rolling lands. It is located in the great Platte Valley, and is included in the flood plains of the broad and shallow Platte, whose immense floods are derived from the snows of the Rocky Mountains.
The county seat is Wahoo.
Saunder's adjoining counties are:
Butler, Cass, Dodge, Douglas, Lancaster and Sarpy
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