Scribner Nebraska - Nebraska Directory

City · Dodge County · Population 843 (2020 census) · ZIP 68057 · Founded 1870 · Peak population 1,066 (1930)

About Scribner

Scribner is a city of 843 on US 275 and NE 91 beside the Elkhorn River in northern Dodge County. It has Scribner-Snyder schools, the Scribner Area Medical Clinic, the public library, the Musbach Museum and the Dodge County Fairgrounds, home of the Dodge County Fair. Dead Timber State Recreation Area is just north on US 275.

History

Lucius D. Richards platted Scribner in 1870 as the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley Railroad arrived, and it was named for the New York publisher Charles Scribner. The rival village of Pebble, platted just to the west the same year, faded once the railroad chose Scribner. The population peaked at 1,066 in 1930.

Scribner Army Airfield opened southeast of town on December 9, 1942, training B-17 and B-24 bomber crews and, in 1943–44, P-47 fighter pilots; it closed at the end of 1945, later served as a Strategic Air Command relocation site until 1959, and is now Scribner State Airport. Floods on the Elkhorn and Pebble Creek ended rail service in 1982. George Dern, governor of Utah and U.S. secretary of war, was born near Scribner.

Highways and trails through Scribner

Route	One way	Other way
US 275North–south through town; runs with NE 91 to the southeast	Northwest past Dead Timber to West Point (about 15 mi)	Southeast to Hooper (about 8 mi) and Fremont (about 22 mi)
NE 91West from US 275	West to Snyder (about 8 mi) and Dodge	Runs with US 275 southeast toward Nickerson

Nearby towns

Crowell	about 5 mi northwest	US 275
Ridgeley	about 6 mi south-southwest	County roads
Snyder	about 8 mi west	NE 91
Hooper	about 8 mi southeast	US 275
Uehling	about 11 mi east	County roads
West Point	about 15 mi northwest	US 275
Pebble	about 1 mi west	NE 91

Things to see

Musbach Museum, Main and Howard streets, in an 1884 store (tours by appointment) · Harder Hotel, 503 Main St., and Scribner Town Hall (both National Register) · City Park with its bandstand and firemen's monument · Riverfront Park canoe launch on the Elkhorn · Dead Timber State Recreation Area · Scribner State Airport

Events in Scribner

Dodge County Fair
Dodge County Fair, a county fair in Fremont, Nebraska.

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Schools and health care

Schools: Scribner-Snyder Community Schools, 400 Pebble St.: elementary and secondary school

Health care: Scribner Area Medical Clinic; nearest hospitals Franciscan Healthcare, West Point (about 15 mi), and Methodist Fremont Health (about 22 mi)

Sources: U.S. Census; Wikipedia; Andreas, History of the State of Nebraska (1882); Buss and Osterman, History of Dodge and Washington Counties (1921); History Nebraska; National Register of Historic Places; Nebraska Game and Parks; Nebraska Department of Transportation route mileposts. Distances marked "about" are estimates.