Lomax is a ghost town in Custer County, Nebraska, United States. [1]
A post office was established at Lomax in 1889, and remained in operation until being discontinued in 1921. [2] The town was named for Harvard Lomax, a Nebraska legislator. [3]
Custer County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 10,939. Its county seat is Broken Bow. The county was formed in 1877 and named after General George Armstrong Custer, who was killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Broken Bow is a city in Custer County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 3,559 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Custer County.
Westerville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Custer County, Nebraska, United States. It is located at the intersection of U.S. Route 183 and Nebraska Highway 70. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 39.
Etna is an unincorporated community in Custer County, Nebraska, United States. It lies at an elevation of 2,802 feet (854 m).
Douglas Grove Township is one of thirty-one townships in Custer County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 115 at the 2000 census. A 2006 estimate placed the township's population at 111.
Lillian Township is one of thirty-one townships in Custer County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 190 at the 2000 census. A 2006 estimate placed the township's population at 184.
Four Mile is an unincorporated community in Custer County, South Dakota, United States, located four miles west of Custer at the junction of U.S. Route 16 and Pleasant Valley Road.
Solomon D. Butcher was an itinerant photographer who spent most of his life in central Nebraska, in the Great Plains region of the United States. A settler under the Homestead Act, he began in 1886 to produce a photographic record of the history of white settlement in the region. Over 3,000 of his negatives survive; more than 1,000 of these depict sod houses. Butcher wrote two books incorporating his photographs: Pioneer History of Custer County and Short Sketches of Early Days in Nebraska (1901), and Sod Houses, or the Development of the Great American Plains (1904).
Cumro is an unincorporated community in Custer County, Nebraska, in the United States.
Gates is an unincorporated community in Custer County, Nebraska, United States.
Lillian is an unincorporated community in Custer County, Nebraska, United States.
Lodi is an unincorporated community in Custer County, Nebraska, United States.
Milburn is an unincorporated community in Custer County, Nebraska, United States.
Walworth is an unincorporated community in Custer County, Nebraska, United States.
Weissert is an unincorporated community in Custer County, Nebraska, United States.
Finchville is an unincorporated community in Custer County, Nebraska, United States.
New Helena is an unincorporated community in Custer County, Nebraska, United States.
Wescott is an unincorporated community in Custer County, Nebraska, United States.
Elton is a ghost town in Custer County, Nebraska, United States.
Dale is a ghost town in Custer County, Nebraska, United States.