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History · Giltner

Giltner’s post office opened in 1895, and 25% of its homes were built before 1940

1895first post office
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How Giltner began

When was Giltner founded?

1895

The Giltner post office opened in 1895, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Linden (1874), Lerton (1875) and Bromfield (1887), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 406131 years
Founding year: the first Giltner post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Giltner’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 Giltner are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Giltner.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Giltner’s history is told.

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Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Giltner’s post office has been open since 1895. Three other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Linden
1874–1875
Lerton
1875–1887
Bromfield
1887–1895
Giltner
1895–today
18701950today

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story so far

Giltner, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Giltner yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Giltner is a village in Hamilton County, Nebraska, United States. As of the 2020 census, Giltner had a population of 406.

Its first post office opened in 1895. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 352 to 406 (+15%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Giltner, 1874 to 1895

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1874Post officeThe Linden post office opens
  3. 1875Post officeThe Linden post office closes
  4. 1875Post officeThe Lerton post office opens
  5. 1887Post officeThe Lerton post office closes
  6. 1887Post officeThe Bromfield post office opens
  7. 1895Post officeThe Bromfield post office closes
By decade

Giltner, decade by decade

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Famous people

Famous people close to Giltner

Nobody well known was born in Giltner itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Henry FondaAmerican actor · b. 1905
Sandy DennisAmerican actress · b. 1937
Ivan SutherlandAmerican computer scientist and Internet pioneer · b. 1938
Edith AbbottAmerican economist · b. 1876
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J. P. GuilfordAmerican psychologist · b. 1897
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Neal HeftiAmerican jazz trumpeter, composer, songwriter, … · b. 1922

Questions about Giltner’s history

What year was Giltner founded?

The Giltner post office opened in 1895, 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), 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.