Pawnee City, Nebraska
Pawnee City is a city in and the county seat of Pawnee County, Nebraska, United States.[4] The population was 878 at the 2010 census.
History[edit]
The site of present-day Pawnee City was designated as the county seat on November 4, 1856, and the townsite was platted in the spring of 1857.[5] Pawnee City was incorporated in 1858,[6] and is named after the Pawnee Native Americans.[7]
By the 1880s, Pawnee City was a railroad town at the junction of two railroad lines.[8] On August 9, 1881, two-thirds of downtown Pawnee City was destroyed by a fire. Downtown was subsequently rebuilt with fireproof construction.[5][6]
Geography[edit]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.21 square miles (3.13 km2), all land.[9]