Map of Kilgore village, Nebraska

Kilgore is a village in Cherry County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 77 at the 2010 census.

Kilgore village overview:
Name:	Kilgore village
LSAD Code:	47
LSAD Description:	village (suffix)
State:	Nebraska
County:	Cherry County
Elevation:	2,917 ft (889 m)
Total Area:	0.45 sq mi (1.16 km²)
Land Area:	0.45 sq mi (1.16 km²)
Water Area:	0.00 sq mi (0.00 km²)
Total Population:	63
Population Density:	140.63/sq mi (54.32/km²)
ZIP code:	69216
Area code:	402
FIPS code:	3125405
GNISfeature ID:	0830495

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History

Kilgore was founded, under the name of Boulware, in 1883 when the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad was extended to that point. In 1885, the village was renamed Georgia. Georgia was incorporated in 1893; the name of the settlement was changed in 1904 to Kilgore when the post office objected to the name Georgia, which could be confused with the state of Georgia. The name Kilgore was chosen in honor of a family of pioneer settlers.

The village experienced a heyday from the 1900s to the late 1920s. During that era, Kilgore “boasted a post office, a medical doctor, a pharmacist, four general merchandise stores, two hotels, a livery stable, a lumber yard, hardware store, a harness and blacksmith shop, two new car dealerships, a hair dresser, pool hall, barber shop, bulk oil plant, three filling stations, a well driller, a livestock trucker, a full-time railroad depot, and a grain and feed elevator. There were two passenger trains each way each day, a town dray wagon, a small dairy, a meat market, two saloons, and several bootleggers who sold liquor to the Indians. The community also built a brick K-12 schoolhouse in 1929 when the population was over 250.” But with the decline in railroads, the village’s importance declined. Today, Kilgore has fewer than 100 residents.