Broken Bow, Nebraska Broken Bow, Nebraska Broken Bow Commercial Square Historic District, centered on the enhance square, is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Broken Bow Commercial Square Historic District, centered on the enhance square, is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Location inside Custer County (left) and Nebraska (right) Location inside Custer County (left) and Nebraska (right) Broken Bow is a town/city in Custer County, Nebraska, United States.
Broken Bow was platted in 1882. Its name was suggested by a settler who found a broken bow in a field at the site of a former Indian camping ground. The barns was assembled through Broken Bow in 1884, and the town was incorporated as a village that same year. Broken Bow was incorporated as a town/city of the second class in 1888. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 1.90 square miles (4.92 km2), all of it land. The geographic center of Nebraska lies approximately 10 miles northwest of Broken Bow.
There were 1,730 housing units at an average density of 910.5 per square mile (351.5/km2).
There were 1,575 homeholds of which 27.9% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 43.8% were married couples living together, 10.3% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 3.6% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 42.3% were non-families.
The average homehold size was 2.19 and the average family size was 2.90.
The median age in the town/city was 41.9 years.
24.8% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 6.4% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 22.4% were from 25 to 44; 24.1% were from 45 to 64; and 22.2% were 65 years of age or older.
As of the census of 2000, there were 3,491 citizens , 1,509 homeholds, and 917 families residing in the city.
There were 1,721 housing units at an average density of 1,059.3 per square mile (410.2/km2).
There were 1,509 homeholds out of which 27.0% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 51.2% were married couples living together, 7.9% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 39.2% were non-families.
The average homehold size was 2.21 and the average family size was 2.88.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 23.9% under the age of 18, 6.2% from 18 to 24, 22.7% from 25 to 44, 22.3% from 45 to 64, and 24.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
As of 2000 the median income for a homehold in the town/city was $29,355, and the median income for a family was $37,750.
About 9.6% of families and 14.4% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 22.8% of those under age 18 and 9.1% of those age 65 or over.
Nebraska's biggest cattle feedlot, the Adams Land and Cattle south lot, with a capacity of 85,000 head, is positioned 2 miles south of Broken Bow.
Solomon Butcher, photographer of the homestead era in central Nebraska, lived in Broken Bow from 1915 to 1926.
"Nebraska National Register Sites in Custer County".
"Broken Bow, Custer County".
History of Custer County, Nebraska: A Narrative of the Past.
Butcher's Pioneer History of Custer County: And Short Sketches of Early Days in Nebraska.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
United States Enumeration Bureau.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2012".
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