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Village · Saunders County · Population 107 (2020 census) · ZIP 68018 · Founded 1886 · Peak population 193 (1900)

About Colon

Colon is a village of 107 on NE 109 in Saunders County, about 6 miles north of Wahoo. Its brick St. Joseph Catholic Church was dedicated in 1919.

History

A post office called Colan opened in 1872, and in 1879 Leander Taylor, from Colon, Michigan, set up the Colon post office about a mile south of the first site. When the Chicago & North Western built its line through in 1886, the village was platted on Martin Van Fleet's land at the tracks, and it incorporated on December 1, 1894. Passenger service ran until 1940, and the line closed in 1982.

The Sand Creek (Holy Rosary) Catholic church of 1884 was closed in 1918, and St. Joseph's in Colon replaced it the next year; St. Mary's in Cedar Bluffs is its mission. The population peaked at 193 in 1900. Omaha lawyer Emmett Louis Murphy, a Nebraska assistant attorney general, was born here.

Highways and trails through Colon

Route	One way	Other way
NE 109Through the village	North to Cedar Bluffs (about 7 mi)	South to Wahoo (about 6 mi)

Nearby towns

Wahoo	about 6 mi south	NE 109
Malmo	about 6 mi west-southwest	County roads
Cedar Bluffs	about 7 mi north	NE 109
Mead	about 8 mi southeast	County roads
Leshara	about 9 mi east-northeast	County roads
Fremont	about 12 mi north-northeast	NE 109 and US 77

Things to see

St. Joseph Catholic Church, 111 Cherry St. (1919) · Marietta Cemetery, east of town · Holy Rosary Cemetery at the old Sand Creek church site

Health care

Nearest hospitals Saunders Medical Center, Wahoo (about 6 mi), and Methodist Fremont Health (about 11 mi)

Sources: U.S. Census; Wikipedia; Andreas, History of the State of Nebraska (1882); Phillips, Past and Present of Saunders County (1915); Saunders County, Nebraska History (1983, NEGenWeb); Fitzpatrick, Nebraska Place-Names (1925); National Register of Historic Places; Nebraska Game and Parks; Lower Platte North NRD; Nebraska Department of Transportation. Distances marked "about" are estimates.