Emerald, Nebraska

Emerald is an unincorporated community in Lancaster County, Nebraska, United States.[1]

Emerald, Nebraska
Unincorporated community
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Emerald
Location in Nebraska
Emerald
Location in the United States
Coordinates: 40°48′50″N 96°50′06″W
CountryUnited States
StateNebraska
CountyLancaster
Elevation
1,204 ft (367 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP codes
68528
GNIS feature ID829106

History

A post office was established at Emerald in 1884, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1943.[2] The community was so named because its landscape was said to be as green as an emerald.[3]

gollark: The expected value of demanding for communism appears substantially lower than that of actually helping people with malaria.
gollark: Yet they do not do this, and instead ineffectually demand communism which would totally make everything great and wonderful.
gollark: Consider: the people complaining about wanting communism could probably work in a well-paying job, obtain money, and donate it to effective charities like the Against Malaria Foundation.
gollark: Capitalism seems to be doing a fairly okay job of satisfying the values of, well, people in places with more resources, and apparently most people's values don't actually involve helping people they don't directly interact with because humans are bad.
gollark: From what I do know of Marx, he ends up just making up an analysis framework to get the results he wants out of analyzing things.

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Emerald, Nebraska
  2. "Lancaster County". Jim Forte Postal History. Archived from the original on 20 August 2014. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
  3. Fitzpatrick, Lillian L. (1960). Nebraska Place-Names. University of Nebraska Press. p. 92. ISBN 0-8032-5060-6. A 1925 edition is available for download at University of Nebraska—Lincoln Digital Commons.



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