Durant, Polk County, Nebraska

Durant is an unincorporated community in Polk County, Nebraska, United States.[1]

History

Durant was established when the Union Pacific Railroad was extended to that point, during the construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad.[2]

A town called Durant, Nebraska features at the end of the first season and beginning of the second in the AMC TV series Hell on Wheels, in a nod to the real-life Durant. In the Season 2 episode titled "Durant, Nebraska", the town is ransacked by a Sioux war party and is not shown to be rebuilt.

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References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Durant, Polk County, Nebraska
  2. Sedgwick, Theron E. (1921). York County, Nebraska and Its People: Together with a Condensed History of the State. S.J. Clarke. p. 134.



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