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Sidney is a city in and the county seat of Cheyenne County, Nebraska, United States. [5] The city is nine miles (14 km) north of the Colorado state line. The population was 6,410 at the 2020 census .
Cheyenne County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska.As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 9,468. [1] Its county seat is Sidney. [2] The county was formed in 1871 [3] and named for the Cheyenne Native American tribe.
[8] [9] During a "Golden Link" ceremony, the last section of I-80 in Nebraska was completed when a brass connector was inserted in the roadway near Sidney on October 20, 1974. [3] [10] This was designed to emulate the golden spike ceremonially used to complete the first transcontinental railroad in 1869. [11]
After leaving Cheyenne, it merges back on I-80 for the third and final time. They travel through Hillsdale and parallel the Union Pacific Railroad's Sidney Subdivision line. [13] Once the routes reach Pine Bluffs, US 30 splits off into the town, and both of the routes continue into Kimball County, Nebraska separate from each other. [14]
The Fort Sidney Complex is a museum of the remaining fort buildings. The complex includes the married officer's quarters which houses the Cheyenne County Museum, the Commander's Home which has been restored and outfitted with late 19th-century period furnishings, and a powder house. [2] Officers' Quarters - Cheyenne County Museum
The Sidney Black Hills Stage Road or Route was a trail connecting Sidney, Nebraska, Sidney Barracks, and the Union Pacific Railroad with Fort Robinson, Red Cloud Agency, Spotted Tail Agency, Custer City, Dakota Territory, and Deadwood, Dakota Territory between 1876 and 1887, when it was replaced.
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At the peak of the gold rush in 1878 and 1879, fifty to seventy-five freight wagons left Sidney every day and an estimated 22-million pounds of freight traveled along the trail. [9] Each week, gold was shipped out of the Black Hills to Sidney, sometimes with daily loads approaching $200,000 in value [10] (equivalent to $5.55 million in 2023 [11 ...