Durant is an unincorporated community in Polk County, Nebraska, United States. [1]
Durant was established when the Union Pacific Railroad was extended to that point, during the construction of the First transcontinental railroad. [2] The town was named for Thomas C. Durant, vice president of the railroad.
A town called Durant, Nebraska features at the end of the first season and beginning of the second in the AMC TV series Hell on Wheels , in a nod to the real-life Durant. In the Season 2 episode titled "Durant, Nebraska", the town is ransacked by a Sioux war party and is not shown to be rebuilt.
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