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Lexington is a city in Dawson County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 10,348 at the 2020 census, making it the 16th most populous city in Nebraska. [4] It is the county seat of Dawson County. [5] Lexington is located in southern Nebraska, on the Platte River, southeast of North Platte.
Gosper County is part of the Lexington, NE Micropolitan Statistical Area. In the Nebraska license plate system , Gosper County is represented by the prefix 73 (it had the seventy-third-largest number of vehicles registered in the county when the license plate system was established in 1922).
Its county seat is Lexington. [2] Dawson County is part of the Lexington, NE Micropolitan Statistical Area. In the Nebraska license plate system, Dawson County is represented by the prefix 18 (it had the 18th-largest number of vehicles registered in the county when the license plate system was established in 1922).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.52 square miles (1.35 km 2), all land. [9] Elwood is located at the junction of Nebraska Highway 23 and U.S. Route 283, and is south of Elwood Reservoir. [10] In Elwood, the two highways respectively follow Ripley Street and Smith Street. [citation needed]
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Wilsonville was first settled in 1872 under the name “Wild Turkey”. A post office was established on April 18, 1873. [4] On December 16, 1873, the name was officially changed from Wild Turkey to Wilsonville [5] in honor of L.M. and Carlos Wilson, two brothers that were merchants and stockman.
Dawson County and Lexington, then known as Plum Creek, grew as a result of the arrival of the Union Pacific Railroad in 1866. Though the county had been created by the state legislature in 1860, it was not organized and established until 1871. Plum Creek was selected as the county seat in 1873, the town's name was changed to Lexington in 1889 ...
The Wilson Packing Plant was a division of the Wilson and Company meatpacking company located near South 27th and Y Streets in South Omaha, Nebraska. Founded in the 1890s, it closed in 1976. [ 1 ] It occupied the area bounded by Washington Street, South 27th Street, W Street and South 30th Street.