Andrews, Nebraska | |
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Coordinates: 42°37′53″N103°55′02″W / 42.63139°N 103.91722°W | |
Country | United States |
State | Nebraska |
County | Sioux |
Andrews is an unincorporated community in Sioux County, Nebraska, United States. [1]
A post office was established at Andrews in 1906, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1951. [2] Sources on the etymology of the name differ. It was either named for J. W. Andrews, a railroad engineer, [3] or for a pioneer settler. [4]
Wayne County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,697. Its county seat is Wayne.
Sioux County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 1,135. Its county seat is Harrison.
Box Butte County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 10,604. Its county seat is Alliance. The county was formed in 1886; it took its name from a large box-shaped butte north of Alliance.
Woodbury County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census, the population was 105,941, making it the sixth-most populous county in Iowa. The county seat is Sioux City.
Whitney is a village in Dawes County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 77 at the 2010 census.
Maskell is a village in Dixon County, Nebraska, United States. It is part of the Sioux City, IA–NE–SD Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 76 at the 2010 census. It is reportedly home to the smallest city hall in the United States.
Harrison is a village in Sioux County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 239 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Sioux County.
The Battle of Warbonnet Creek was a skirmish characterized by a duel between "Buffalo Bill" Cody and a young Cheyenne warrior named Heova'ehe or Yellow Hair. The engagement is often referred to as the First Scalp for Custer. It occurred July 17, 1876, in Sioux County in northwestern Nebraska.
The Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway or Omaha Road was a railroad in the U.S. states of Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and South Dakota. It was incorporated in 1880 as a consolidation of the Chicago, St. Paul and Minneapolis Railway and the North Wisconsin Railway. The Chicago and North Western Railway (C&NW) gained control in 1882. The C&NW leased the Omaha Road in 1957 and merged the company into itself in 1972. Portions of the C. St. P. M. and O. are part of the Union Pacific Railroad network. This includes main lines from Wyeville, Wisconsin, to St. Paul, Minnesota, and St. Paul to Sioux City, Iowa.
Arabia is an unincorporated community in Cherry County, Nebraska, United States.
Irwin is an unincorporated community in Cherry County, Nebraska, United States.
Thatcher is an unincorporated community. It is located in Cherry County, Nebraska, United States.
Crowell is an unincorporated community in Dodge County, Nebraska, United States.
Stafford is an unincorporated community in Holt County, Nebraska, United States.
Glen is an unincorporated community in Sioux County, Nebraska, United States. It was named for the surrounding glen.
Orella was formerly a town in Sioux County, Nebraska, United States, along the BNSF Railway Butte Subdivision. It was settled by immigrants in the mid-1880s and established as a town by the railroad in 1906. Orella was last inhabited in the 1960s, and its former site is now private property.
Story is an unincorporated community in Sioux County, Nebraska, United States.
Capa is an unincorporated community in Jones County, South Dakota, United States.
Long Pine Creek is a stream in Rock and Brown counties, Nebraska, in the United States.
Eli is an unincorporated community in Cherry County, Nebraska, United States. Its population is approximately 60-75 people, but exact census information has not been collected. It is one mile (1.6 km) north of U.S. Route 20 and 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south of the Nebraska-South Dakota border. The nearest town is Merriman, 11.8 miles (19.0 km) to the west. It is also 12.8 miles (20.6 km) west of Cody.
42°37′53″N103°44′02″W / 42.63139°N 103.73389°W