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Village · Butler County · Population 94 (2020 census) · ZIP 68036 · Founded 1870 · Peak population 329 (1910)

About Linwood

Linwood is a village of 94 people (2020) on Skull Creek in northeastern Butler County, at 1,335 feet near the Platte River; State Spur 12A runs east to it from NE 15, and Schuyler is about 7 miles west-northwest. Camp Moses Merrill is nearby, and District 10, a bar, is at the address of the National Register District No. 10 schoolhouse, about 3 miles west. Linwood is on Central Time.

History

In 1857 the Waverly Town Company of Plattsmouth built the first house in Butler County on Skull Creek, about half a mile from today’s village, but broke up in the Pike’s Peak rush. Settlers came back in 1862, a school opened in 1865, and the post office opened in 1868 as Skull Creek; the town was laid out in 1870–71 and renamed Linwood for the linden, or basswood, trees along the creek. The creek was named for skulls found nearby, and a Pawnee village site near Linwood is on the National Register. Linwood incorporated in 1888, about when the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley Railroad came through, and became the junction of its lines to Hastings and Superior, with a roundhouse; the branches were abandoned by the early 1960s. The village peaked at 329 people in 1910, and a flood in 1963 devastated it.

Highways and trails through Linwood

Route	One way	Other way
State Spur 12ARuns east from NE 15 to the village	West to NE 15	East end at Linwood

Nearby towns

Nimburg	about 3 mi south-southwest	County roads
Abie	about 5 mi south	County roads
Edholm	about 6 mi west-southwest	County roads
Schuyler	about 7 mi west-northwest	NE 15
Octavia	about 8 mi southwest	County roads
Bruno	about 9 mi south	County roads
Prague	about 10 mi southeast	County roads
David City	about 15 mi southwest	Spur 12A and NE 15

Things to see

Camp Moses Merrill, youth and family camps · the District No. 10 schoolhouse (about 1887; National Register), 2030 Road 45½ · Nowhere Special Steakhouse & Saloon

Health care

Hospital: Butler County Health Care Center, David City, about 15 mi

Sources: U.S. Census; Wikipedia; Andreas, History of the State of Nebraska (1882); Nebraska State Gazetteer (1890), NEGenWeb Butler County; Butler County; City of David City; History Nebraska markers; National Register; Nebraska Department of Transportation; Lower Platte South NRD; Nebraska Secretary of State; Nebraska Library Commission; TrailLink; Visit Nebraska; SchoolDigger. Distances marked "about" are straight-line estimates.