Red Cloud, Nebraska
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 Webster County County Courthouse |
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| Location in Platte County, Nebraska | |
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| Basic data | |
| Foundation : | 1871 |
| State : | United States |
| State : | Nebraska |
| County : | Webster County |
| Coordinates : | 40 ° 5 ′ N , 98 ° 31 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) |
| Residents : | 1,131 (as of: 2000) |
| Population density : | 435 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 2.6 km 2 (approx. 1 mi 2 ) of which 2.6 km 2 (approx. 1 mi 2 ) are land |
| Postal code : | 68970 |
| Area code : | +1 402 |
| FIPS : | 31-40920 |
| GNIS ID : | 832484 |
| Website : | www.redcloudnebraska.com |
| Mayor : | Gary Ratzlaff |
Red Cloud, Nebraska is a place in the US state of Nebraska and is a county seat of Webster County, Nebraska . The small town has a public library, a park with an outdoor swimming pool, a golf course and an airfield.
geography
The place is located in the south of the state of Nebraska not far from the border with the neighboring state of Kansas on the north bank of the Republican River at the intersection of the north-south US Highway 281 and the east-west US Highway 136 .
history
The place was founded in 1870/1871 by a group of settlers around the later governor of Nebraska Silas Garber and surrounded with palisades to protect against Indians. He was named after the Indian chief Red Cloud who was born in the area . At the end of the 1870s it was opened up by the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad, which gave the still sparsely populated area a somewhat stronger influx of settlers, including from Germany. In 1879, many buildings in the young town were badly damaged by a violent hurricane ( "Great Storm" ).
sons and daughters of the town
- Silas Garber , 3rd Nebraska Governor
- William C. Norris , computer pioneer
- Willa Cather , Pulitzer Prize winner, immortalized the place in her works
- William A. McKeighan , US MP