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Village · Scotts Bluff County · Population 934 (2020 census) · ZIP 69358 · Founded 1886 · Peak population 1,097 (1980)

About Morrill

Morrill is a village of 934 (2020) in the North Platte valley of western Scotts Bluff County, at 3,990 feet, about 6 miles west of Mitchell and 15 miles from the Wyoming city of Torrington. US 26 runs through the village. Morrill has its own K–12 school district, a library and a Regional West family medicine clinic, and is on Mountain Time.

History

Settlers from near Fort Collins, Colorado, founded Collins in 1886 about a mile north of today's village, at the mouth of Sheep Creek draw, and its post office was serving the area by 1890. When the Burlington built up the valley in the early 1900s, Charles H. Morrill, president of the railroad's Lincoln Land Company, platted a new townsite on the line, and Collins moved to it. Morrill incorporated in 1907 and reached its largest population, 1,097, in 1980. West of town, the Horse Creek Treaty markers recall the great 1851 council of Plains tribes that produced the Fort Laramie Treaty.

Highways and trails through Morrill

Route	One way	Other way
US 26Through the village	East to Mitchell and Scottsbluff	West to Henry and Torrington, Wyoming

Nearby towns

Mitchell	about 6 mi east-southeast	US 26
Henry	about 7 mi west-northwest	US 26
Lyman	about 7 mi west-southwest	County roads
Scottsbluff	about 15 mi east-southeast	US 26
Torrington, Wyoming	about 15 mi west-northwest	US 26

Things to see

the Horse Creek Treaty markers on US 26, about 4 mi west, for the 1851 council of 8,000–12,000 Plains Indians · the Village Museum of Morrill, 119 E. Webster St. · the Morrill Public Library, 119 E. Webster St. · the Rolling Green Golf Course · Kiowa Wildlife Management Area, about 3 mi away, open to public hunting

Schools and health care

Schools: Morrill Public Schools: Morrill Elementary (PK–6), 505 Center Ave., and Morrill High School (7–12), 411 E. Hamilton St.

Health care: Regional West Physicians Clinic–Family Medicine, 302 Center Ave., (308) 247-3475; Regional West Medical Center in Scottsbluff, about 15 mi

Sources: U.S. Census; Wikipedia; Who's Who in Nebraska, Scotts Bluff County (1940); Grant L. Shumway, History of Western Nebraska (1921); Nebraska State Gazetteer (1890); Fitzpatrick and Link, Nebraska Place-Names (1960); National Park Service; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Nebraska Game and Parks; History Nebraska and its markers; National Register nominations; Nebraska Department of Transportation; Bureau of Reclamation; city and village websites; school districts; Regional West Health Services; Visit Scottsbluff; Star-Herald; KNEB; KHYY. Distances marked "about" are straight-line estimates.