BlockSilver Creek Township
The complete chapter on this precinct from A History of Merrick County, Nebraska: From "the Beginning" to 1895, published 1898. 255 words, covering 2 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Contents
1 sectionThe section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.
The modern record here
2 settlementsWhat the federal record holds for each settlement inside this precinct: wildfires and storm reports since the 1950s, mineral workings, and museum specimens collected nearby. These are counted within a few miles of each settlement, so neighbours share them and the columns are deliberately not added up. Every row links to the settlement's own page, where each figure is broken out.
| Settlement | Fires | Storm reports | Mines and quarries | Specimens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Havens | 10 | 1 | - | - |
| Silver Creek | 11 | 27 | - | - |
Settlements in this township
2 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. 1 of the 2 is named in the chapter; the other was founded later or was never more than a post office.
The chapter
255 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from A History of Merrick County, Nebraska: From "the Beginning" to 1895, published 1898. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.
Silver Creek Township
Silver Creek was platted by the Union Pacific in November, 1866. With the exception of the section house, the first building erected at the new station appears to have been built by Mr. B. F. Hobart. In September, 1870, Mr. Cyrus Lee erected a hotel called the "Lee House," which was the first semi-public building of which the little village boasted. Among the earliest settlers in and around Silver Creek were the Shaw brothers, Mr. Lathrop (who kept a ranch two miles below the town), J. and Ed Howland (who located a mile and a half north) and James Brown. During the year 1870, Rev. H. C. Shaw, one of the pioneer Episcopalian ministers, organized the society which still holds its regular sessions there. A district school was organized in 1871. In 1874 the Congregational church was organized and has grown in numbers and strength since that day.
Silver Creek's newspaper history, so far as we are able to learn, is contaired in the record of the life of the Silver Creek Times, originally a Republican paper, but at the present time, under the editorship of the lion. Chas. Wooster, a representative of the Fusionists.
Silver Creek derived its name from the clearness, sparkle and color of the little stream which meanders over the prairie near the town. Its growth in the twenty-one years since it was platted has not yet brought it into serious competition with the other towns of the county, but has none the less made it a substantial little country settlement.
Provenance
Text from A History of Merrick County, Nebraska: From "the Beginning" to 1895, published 1898, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.