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Village · Seward County · Population 236 (2020 census) · ZIP 68439 · Founded 1879 · Peak population 306 (1980)

About Staplehurst

Staplehurst is a village of 236 people (2020) in northern Seward County, at 1,486 feet about 6 miles northwest of Seward; State Spur 80C runs west to it from NE 15. It has Our Redeemer Lutheran School (K–8) and Cross Creek Animal Health Center, carries the 1984 title Nebraska Baseball Capital, and its men’s community club serves a liver and onions feed every Presidents Day. Staplehurst is on Central Time.

History

A post office opened in the area in the 1870s, named by May Jull, daughter of Ebenezer Jull, for her family’s old home of Staplehurst, England; the town grew at its present site after the railroad came in 1879. The Deutsche Evangelisch Lutherische Zion Kirche on Marysville Road is on the National Register. In 1984 the Nebraska Semi-Pro Baseball Committee named Staplehurst the Nebraska Baseball Capital; the trophies are kept in the community hall. The population peaked at 306 in 1980. Actress Coleen Gray, of Kiss of Death, Red River and The Killing, was born here as Doris Jensen in 1922.

Highways and trails through Staplehurst

Route	One way	Other way
Spur 80CRuns west from NE 15 on Branched Oak Road	East to NE 15	West end at Staplehurst

Nearby towns

Seward	about 6 mi southeast	NE 15
Tamora	about 6 mi south-southwest	County roads
Bee	about 6 mi east-northeast	NE 15
Ulysses	about 7 mi north-northwest	County roads
Garland	about 10 mi east-southeast	County roads
Goehner	about 10 mi south-southwest	County roads
Utica	about 11 mi west-southwest	County roads
David City	about 19 mi north	NE 15

Things to see

the Zion Kirche, 3743 Marysville Rd. (National Register, 1982) · Good Ol Days Bar and Grill, 330 A St.

Schools and health care

Schools: Our Redeemer Lutheran School (K–8), 145 S. 4th St., (402) 535-2251

Health care: Hospital: Memorial Health Care Systems, Seward, about 6 mi

Sources: U.S. Census; Wikipedia; Andreas, History of the State of Nebraska (1882); Cox, History of Seward County (1905); Fitzpatrick, Nebraska Place-Names (1925); Nebraska State Gazetteer (1890); History Nebraska markers; National Register; Nebraska Department of Transportation; Nebraska Game and Parks; NOAA; Seward County; City of Seward; City of Milford; Village of Staplehurst; Village of Bee; Cultivate Seward County; Southeast Community College; Concordia University. Distances marked "about" are straight-line estimates.