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History · Beemer

Beemer’s post office opened in 1884, and 23% of its homes were built before 1940

1884first post office
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23%homes built before 1940
3famous people
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How Beemer began

When was Beemer founded?

1884

The Beemer post office opened in 1884, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 611142 years
Founding year: the first Beemer post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Beemer’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Beemer are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Beemer’s homes were built before 1961.
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The story

How Beemer came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Beemer.

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The first settlers of European descent arrived in the Beemer area by prairie schooner in 1864, seeking land under the Homestead Act. The new inhabitants built dugouts, sod houses, and, eventually, log cabins. The earliest settlers in Beemer Township included M. Brayrerton, George Graham, Joseph S. Emley, Robert Fehlmann, Dr. H.H. Howe, Howard Howe, James and Michael McNamara, Judge Newburn, the Rabe family, W.S. Schneald, William Sharp and two sons Martin and Silas, Casper Schifferns, David Simons, Wm. A. Smith, J.E. Spencer, Benjamin Ewing, John Wagaoner, Henry White, James Wilson, and William Witte.

ChaptersEarly settlementForming a villageBeemer's first century, 1886 - 1986

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Beemer, 1884 to 1926

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1884Post officeThe Beemer post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1909Born hereMel Harder is born here
  5. 1917Born hereKarl Hubenthal is born here
  6. 1926Born hereWilliam E. Galbraith is born here
By decade

Beemer, decade by decade

Today6 recent
Beemer, Nebraska Hometown Grocery from SE2010Beemer, Nebraska Hometown Grocery from SEBeemer, Nebraska E side Main Street2010Beemer, Nebraska E side Main StreetBeemer, Nebraska 3rd Street bridge 22010Beemer, Nebraska 3rd Street bridge 2Beemer, Nebraska 3rd Street bridge 12010Beemer, Nebraska 3rd Street bridge 1Beemer, Nebraska Cemetery Entrance2008Beemer, Nebraska Cemetery EntranceNEMap-doton-Beemer2005NEMap-doton-Beemer
Famous people

3 famous people were born in Beemer

Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.

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Mel HarderAmerican baseball player and coach · b. 1909
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Karl HubenthalAmerican cartoonist · b. 1917
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William E. GalbraithCommander of the American Legion · b. 1926
Places that used to be

Places now gone and burying grounds

Beemer’s post office has been open since 1884.

Gone or out of use
Beemerlocale
1cemetery inside Beemer
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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Beemer’s history

What year was Beemer founded?

The Beemer post office opened in 1884, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (6), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.