Bancroft
Bancroft is a village in Cuming County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 496 as of the 2020 census. John Neihardt, who later became Nebraska's poet laureate, lived in Bancroft for twenty years and wrote many of his works there.- Type: Village with 488 residents
- Description: village in Nebraska
- Also known as: “Bancroft, NE”, “Bancroft, Nebraska”, and “Toe Nuga Zingha”
- Postal code: 68004
Places of Interest
Highlights: John G. Neihardt State Historic Site.
John G. Neihardt State Historic Site
Museum
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rosalie.
Rosalie
Village
Bancroft
- Categories: village in the United States and locality
- Location: Bancroft Township, Cuming, Nebraska, Great Plains, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.01277° or 42° 0′ 46″ north
Longitude
-96.57281° or 96° 34′ 22″ west
Population
488
Elevation
1,339 feet (408 metres)
Open location code
86J52C7G+4V
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Volapük—“Bancroft” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بانكروف”
- Basque: “Bancroft”
- Catalan: “Bancroft”
- Cebuano: “Bancroft”
- Chinese: “班克羅夫特”
- Croatian: “Bancroft”
- Dutch: “Bancroft”
- French: “Bancroft”
- German: “Bancroft”
- Gilaki: “بنکرافت (نبراسکا)”
- Gilaki: “بنکرافت”
- Haitian: “Bancroft, Nebraska”
- Haitian: “Bancroft”
- Italian: “Bancroft”
- Kazakh: “Банкрофт”
- Kirghiz: “Банкрофт”
- Ladin: “Bancroft”
- Malagasy: “Bancroft, Nebraska”
- Malagasy: “Bancroft”
- Mazanderani: “بنکرفت (نبراسکا)”
- Mazanderani: “بنکرفت”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bancroft”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bancroft (Nebraska)”
- Norwegian: “Bancroft”
- Persian: “بنکرفت، نبراسکا”
- Persian: “بنکرفت”
- Polish: “Bancroft”
- Portuguese: “Bancroft”
- Serbian: “Банкрофт”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bancroft, Nebraska”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bancroft”
- South Azerbaijani: “بانکروفت، نبراسکا”
- Spanish: “Bancroft”
- Swedish: “Bancroft, Nebraska”
- Swedish: “Bancroft”
- Ukrainian: “Банкрофт”
- Urdu: “بین کرافٹ، نیبراسکا”
- Volapük: “Bancroft”
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Places to explore: Lyons and Pender.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Bancroft Fire Department and Bancroft Public Library.
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