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Village · Adams County · Population 260 (2020 census) · ZIP 68973 · Founded 1887

About Roseland

Roseland is a village of about 260 people (2020), the most it has had, in southern Adams County, at 1,969 feet on NE 74 about 12 miles southwest of Hastings. It is home to Silver Lake Public Schools’ high school; the district’s elementary is in Bladen. Roseland is on Central Time.

History

Postmaster Benjamin F. Evans named a country post office Roseland in 1875 for the wild roses that grew nearby. The town was planned in 1886 and surveyed in April 1887 when the Kansas City & Omaha Railroad built through, and it was incorporated in May 1889. Roseland formed Adams County’s first consolidated school district in 1919, and in 1986 it joined Bladen to form Silver Lake; the new high school opened in Roseland in 1995. The Catholic church of the Assumption stands about three miles north-northwest.

Highways and trails through Roseland

Route	One way	Other way
NE 74Through the village	East to Ayr and US 281	West to Holstein

Nearby towns

Holstein	about 5 mi west	NE 74
Ayr	about 7 mi east-southeast	NE 74
Juniata	about 9 mi north-northeast	County roads
Bladen	about 10 mi south	County roads
Blue Hill	about 11 mi south-southeast	County roads
Kenesaw	about 12 mi north-northwest	County roads
Hastings	about 12 mi northeast	NE 74 and US 281

Things to see

the Church of the Assumption at Assumption, about 3 miles north-northwest · Sacred Heart Catholic Church (1920)

Schools and health care

Schools: Silver Lake Public Schools: Silver Lake High School (7–12), 9405 S. Lincoln Ave., Roseland, (402) 756-6611; elementary in Bladen

Health care: Nearest hospital: Mary Lanning Healthcare, Hastings, about 12 mi

Sources: U.S. Census; Wikipedia; Adams County (adamscountyne.gov); City of Hastings; Andreas, History of the State of Nebraska (1882); Past and Present of Adams County (1916); NEGenWeb Adams County; History Nebraska (Naval Ammunition Depot, Kool-Aid, Crystal Lake markers); National Park Service; National Register; Amtrak; Nebraska Game and Parks; Hastings Visitors Guide (CVB); Nebraska 211; KSNB; KRVN; SchoolDigger. Distances marked "about" are straight-line estimates.