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Village · Boone County · Population 332 (2020 census) · ZIP 68652 · Founded 1887 · Peak population 657 (1940)

About Petersburg

Petersburg is a village of 332 people (2020) in northern Boone County, at about 1,896 feet on NE 14, which runs through town as Front Street. NE 32 begins here and runs east on Leona Avenue. Elgin is about 9 miles north and Albion about 12 miles south-southeast. Petersburg has a village office, a park with a campground and the Logan Fontenelle markers, and churches; its students attend Boone Central Schools in Albion. Every late August the Rae Valley Heritage Association holds its antique tractor show and plowing bee at Charlie's Park just west of town. Petersburg is on Central Time.

History

Petersburg was platted in 1887 when a Chicago & North Western branch reached the site, and named for John Peters, who owned the townsite; the post office opened on September 20, 1887. Raeville, three miles north, had voted against a station, so the depot and Raeville's post office went to Petersburg. In 1896 sixty Catholic families bought the former Methodist church as St. John the Baptist. The village jail is on the National Register. The population peaked at 657 in 1940. The railroad has since been abandoned. Petersburg's school district joined Boone Central on June 15, 2000. The Omaha leader Logan Fontenelle was killed by a Sioux war party on a buffalo hunt near here in July 1855.

Highways and trails through Petersburg

Route	One way	Other way
NE 14Through town as Front Street	North to Elgin and Neligh	South to Loretto and Albion
NE 32Begins here and runs east on Leona Avenue	East toward Madison County	Ends at NE 14

Nearby towns

Raeville	about 3 mi north-northeast	NE 14 and county roads
Loretto	about 6 mi south	NE 14
Elgin	about 9 mi north	NE 14
Akron	about 11 mi southwest	County roads
Albion	about 12 mi south-southeast	NE 14
Newman Grove	about 17 mi east-southeast	NE 32
Primrose	about 18 mi south-southwest	NE 14 and NE 91
Spalding	about 18 mi southwest	NE 14 and NE 91
Neligh	about 19 mi north	NE 14
St. Edward	about 23 mi south-southeast	NE 14 and NE 39

Things to see

the Logan Fontenelle markers, a state marker and a 1955 marker side by side at Petersburg Community Park on Front St. · the city park campground: full hookups, dump station, about $15 a night · the Petersburg Jail at Main and 2nd Sts. (National Register) · the Rae Valley Old Threshers Reunion at Charlie's Park in late August · the St. Bonaventure Church Complex at Raeville, about 3 miles north-northeast

Events in Petersburg

Rae Valley Old Threshers Reunion and Plowing Bee
Antique tractor show, horse plowing bee and threshing reunion at Charlie's Park near Petersburg, the last full weekend of August.

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Schools and health care

Schools: Boone Central Schools, 605 S. 6th St., Albion, (402) 395-2134

Health care: Nearest hospital: Boone County Health Center, 723 W Fairview St., Albion, about 12 mi

Sources: U.S. Census; Wikipedia; Boone County (history sketch, post office history, offices); Andreas, History of the State of Nebraska (1882); History Nebraska (markers); National Register listings and the St. Bonaventure Church Complex nomination (1982); Nebraska Game and Parks; Nebraska Department of Education and Department of Revenue; Village of Cedar Rapids; City of St. Edward; Boone County Health Center; Elgin Review; KOLN 10/11; VisitNebraska. Distances marked "about" are straight-line estimates.