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Aspinwall is an unincorporated, largely vanished community in southeastern Nemaha County, Nebraska, on the Missouri River bottoms a few miles south of the village of Nemaha. First settled around 1853, it grew into a busy Missouri River steamboat landing during the 1860s — local histories describe it, by 1864, as one of the busiest grain-shipping points on this stretch of the river, for a time outshipping the older river towns of Brownville and Nemaha. A post office operated at Aspinwall from 1860 into the early 1900s. The town’s fortunes faded as river trade gave way to the railroads that bypassed it, and today essentially nothing of the original townsite remains beyond open farmland and the small Aspinwall Cemetery a couple of miles away.
Adjacent Counties
- Otoe County (north)
- Atchison County, Missouri (east)
- Holt County, Missouri (southeast)
- Richardson County (south)
- Pawnee County (southwest)
- Johnson County (west)
Nearby Towns
- Nemaha — about 5 miles north-northwest
- Brownville — about 6 miles north
- Auburn — the Nemaha County seat, about 13 miles northwest
A vanished 19th-century Missouri River steamboat landing in southeastern Nemaha County; no incorporated town remains today.