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Nelson

Nelson is a city in and the county seat of , United States. The population was 488 at the 2010 census. The city was named from the middle name of one Horatio Nelson Wheeler, the original owner of the town site.
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  • Type: Town with 529 residents
  • Description: city in Nuckolls County, Nebraska, United States of America
  • Also known as: “Nelson, NE” and “Nelson, Nebraska”
  • Postal code: 68961

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nora.

Hamlet
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is a village in , , United States. The population was 21 at the 2010 census. is situated 6 miles southeast of Nelson.

Nelson

Latitude
40.20161° or 40° 12′ 6″ north
Longitude
-98.06753° or 98° 4′ 3″ west
Population
529
Elevation
1,699 feet (518 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US NZL
Open location code
86G36W2J+JX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151527317
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
5073754
Wiki­data ID
Q952899
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Nelson” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “نيلسون”
  • Basque: “Nelson”
  • Catalan: “Nelson”
  • Cebuano: “Nelson”
  • Chechen: “Нельсон”
  • Chinese: “Nelson”
  • Chinese: “納爾遜”
  • Chinese: “纳尔逊”
  • Croatian: “Nelson”
  • Danish: “Nelson”
  • Dutch: “Nelson”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نيلسون”
  • French: “Nelson”
  • Gilaki: “نلسون”
  • Haitian: “Nelson, Nebraska”
  • Haitian: “Nelson”
  • Hungarian: “Nelson”
  • Irish: “Nelson”
  • Italian: “Nelson”
  • Kazakh: “Nélson”
  • Kazakh: “Нэлсон”
  • Kazakh: “نەلسون”
  • Kirghiz: “Нэлсон”
  • Ladin: “Nelson”
  • Malagasy: “Nelson, Nebraska”
  • Malagasy: “Nelson”
  • Mazanderani: “نلسون”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nelson”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nelson”
  • Norwegian: “Nelson”
  • Persian: “نلسن”
  • Persian: “نلسون”
  • Polish: “Nelson”
  • Portuguese: “Nelson”
  • Russian: “Нельсон”
  • Serbian: “Нелсон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nelson, Nebraska”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nelson”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نلسون، نبراسکا”
  • Spanish: “Nelson”
  • Swedish: “Nelson, Nebraska”
  • Swedish: “Nelson”
  • Tatar: “Нельсон (Небраска)”
  • Tatar: “Нельсон”
  • Ukrainian: “Нельсон”
  • Uzbek: “Nelson”
  • Uzbek: “Нелсон”
  • Volapük: “Nelson”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nelson, Nebraska”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nelson”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Nelson”. Photo: Ammodramus, Public domain.