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Village · Dawson County · Population 88 (2020 census) · ZIP 68834 · Founded 1890 · Peak population 254 (1910)

About Eddyville

Eddyville is a village of 88 people (2020) in the Wood River valley of northern Dawson County, at 2,444 feet, about 7 miles northwest of Sumner and 17 miles north-northeast of Lexington. Students attend Sumner-Eddyville-Miller Schools in Sumner. Eddyville is on Central Time.

History

Eddyville was platted when the Kearney & Black Hills railway, a Union Pacific line, came up the Wood River valley in 1890. The place had been known as Congdon; the railway promoters named it for Eddyville, Iowa, itself named for the trader J. P. Eddy. Volga German families settled around Eddyville and the Buffalo community to the west. By 1920 Eddyville had about 250 people, a twelve-grade high school, a bank, a farmers’ elevator and the Eddyville Shipping Association, which sent cattle, hogs and sheep out by rail each week. It peaked at 254 people in 1910.

Highways and trails through Eddyville

Route	One way	Other way
NE 40Passes the village; Spur 24C leads in	Southeast to Sumner and Miller	Northwest to Oconto and Callaway

Nearby towns

Sumner	about 7 mi southeast	NE 40
Buffalo	about 9 mi west	County roads
Miller	about 14 mi east-southeast	NE 40
Lexington	about 17 mi south-southwest	County roads
Cozad	about 22 mi west-southwest	County roads
Callaway	about 25 mi northwest	NE 40
Gothenburg	about 28 mi west-southwest	County roads

Schools and health care

Schools: Sumner-Eddyville-Miller Schools, 205 E. 5th Ave., Sumner, (308) 752-2925

Health care: Nearest hospital: Lexington Regional Health Center, about 17 mi

Sources: U.S. Census; Wikipedia; Dawson County (dawsoncountyne.gov); History Nebraska (markers, "Dawson County's True Namesake," "How a Lexington meatpacking plant changed Nebraska," "The Instant Town"); Andreas, History of the State of Nebraska (1882); Fitzpatrick, Nebraska Place-Names (1925); NEGenWeb Dawson County; National Register; National Park Service (Pony Express NHT); HMdb; Nebraska Game and Parks; KRVN; Rural Radio Network; 1011 Now; Gothenburg Leader; school districts; NE211. Distances marked "about" are straight-line estimates.