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City · Cedar County · County seat · Population 1,517 (2020 census) · ZIP 68739 · Founded 1883 · Peak population 1,730 (1980)

About Hartington

Hartington is the county seat of Cedar County, a city of 1,517 where NE 57 and NE 84 meet near the middle of the county. It has public and Catholic schools, the Avera Hartington clinic, the Hotel Hartington and Cobblestone Inn & Suites, a city campground and golf course, and it hosts the Cedar County Fair every July.

History

The Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway (the "Omaha Road") laid out Hartington in 1883 at the end of its branch from Wakefield and named it for Lord Hartington, the British statesman. The post office of nearby Paragon moved to the new town and took the Hartington name on October 17, 1883. The depot, rebuilt in 1925 after a fire, still stands at 408 N. Broadway; the last train ran in July 1973.

Less than a year after it incorporated, Hartington won the county seat from St. Helena in an election on January 20, 1885. The Romanesque Revival courthouse was built in 1891–92 for $19,000. It is on the National Register of Historic Places, as are the 1921–23 City Hall and Auditorium, the 1915 Carnegie library, the 1917 Hotel Hartington and the downtown historic district. Governors Dwight Burney and Charles Thone both graduated from Hartington High School. The population peaked at 1,730 in 1980.

Highways and trails through Hartington

Route	One way	Other way
NE 57North–south through Hartington	North to NE 12 (about 7.5 mi) near Bow Valley	South to Coleridge (about 8 mi) and Belden (about 15 mi)
NE 84East–west; shares Broadway with NE 57 for half a mile	West to US 81 (about 8 mi) and Bloomfield (about 20 mi)	East to NE 15 (about 9 mi)

Nearby towns

Bow Valley	about 7 mi north	NE 57
Coleridge	about 8 mi south	NE 57
Fordyce	about 10 mi northwest	County roads
Wynot	about 13 mi northeast	NE 57 and NE 12
St. Helena	about 14 mi north	NE 57, NE 12 and Spur S-14H
Belden	about 15 mi south	NE 57
Crofton	about 20 mi northwest	NE 57 and NE 12
Yankton, South Dakota	about 25 mi north	NE 57, NE 12 and US 81

Things to see

Cedar County Courthouse on Broadway (National Register) · Cedar County Historical Museum, 304 W. Franklin St., in the 1900 Lammers house with an 1869 log cabin (Sundays 2–4 p.m., May–August) · Hartington Public Library, the 1915 Carnegie library, 106 S. Broadway · Hotel Hartington (1917), 202 N. Broadway · Hartington Golf Club · City of Hartington Campground, 500 N. Broadway · Nissen Winery & Outlaw Trail Center on NE 57 north of town

Events in Hartington

Cedar County Fair
Cedar County Fair, a county fair in Hartington, Nebraska.

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Schools and health care

Schools: Hartington-Newcastle Public Schools, 501 S. Broadway; Cedar Catholic Jr./Sr. High School, 401 S. Broadway; Holy Trinity Elementary School (Catholic, K–6), 502 S. Broadway

Health care: Avera Medical Group Hartington, 405 W. Darlene St. (weekdays 8–5). There is no hospital in Cedar County; the nearest are Avera Sacred Heart, Yankton, S.D. (about 25 mi) and Osmond General Hospital (about 31 mi)

Sources: U.S. Census; Wikipedia; NEGenWeb Cedar County post offices; Andreas, History of the State of Nebraska (1882); National Register of Historic Places; Nebraska Department of Transportation route mileposts. Distances marked "about" are estimates.