- Sweetwater, Nebraska
Infobox Settlement
official_name = Sweetwater, Nebraska
settlement_type = U6 (FIPS 55-3), Unincorporated community
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subdivision_name =United States
subdivision_type1 = State
subdivision_name1 =Nebraska
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Buffalo
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utc_offset = -6
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elevation_m = 628
elevation_ft = 2060
latd = 41 |latm = 02 |lats = 40 |latNS = N
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postal_code = 68869
area_code = 308
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blank_info = 835461GR|3
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footnotes =Sweetwater is an unincorporated community in Beaver Township, Buffalo County,
Nebraska ,United States . It lies along State Route 2, half way between Ravenna and Hazard. It is a part of theKearney, Nebraska Micropolitan Statistical Area. Sweetwater is located on Mud Creek, a tributary of the South Loup River.Geography
Sweetwater is located at coor dms|41|02|40|N|99|00|27|W|city (41.0444553, -99.0075863)GR|1. It’s Census code is 48165, census class: U6. [ U6 is defined in FIPS 55-3 as “An unincorporated place located wholly or substantially outside the boundaries of an incorporated place or census designated place (CDP) and designated as a populated place by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).”]
History
The community was named for springs that fed Mud Creek. There was a railway station there and a Post Office opened in 1874. [ [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nebuffal/towns.htm Houser, Mona J. (2003) "Towns and Post Offices, Past and Present - Buffalo County, Nebraska"] Buffalo County NE, GenWeb Project ]
Notes
Further reading
*Perkey, Elton A. (1995) "Perkey's Nebraska Place-Names" (rev. ed.) Nebraska State Historical Society, Lincoln, Nebraska, p20, ISBN 0-934904-19-7
External links
* [http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/ Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)] from the
USGS , search for "Sweetwater, Nebraska"
*Mapit-US-cityscale|41.0444553|-99.0075863
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