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- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Durant, Polk County, Nebraska
- ↑ Sedgwick, Theron E. (1921). York County, Nebraska and Its People: Together with a Condensed History of the State. S.J. Clarke. p. 134.
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