Map of Liberty village, Nebraska

Liberty is a village in Gage County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 37 at the 2020 census.

Liberty village overview:
Name:	Liberty village
LSAD Code:	47
LSAD Description:	village (suffix)
State:	Nebraska
County:	Gage County
Elevation:	1,306 ft (398 m)
Total Area:	0.25 sq mi (0.64 km²)
Land Area:	0.25 sq mi (0.64 km²)
Water Area:	0.00 sq mi (0.00 km²)
Total Population:	37
Population Density:	149.80/sq mi (57.94/km²)
ZIP code:	68381
Area code:	402
FIPS code:	3126980
GNISfeature ID:	2398434

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History

The area that would eventually become Liberty was being settled by whites as early as 1855. The town itself was founded by early settler David Palmer (1838-1876), who ran a trading post in the area. Palmer drowned in a nearby river and was buried in the Liberty Cemetery. The town also grew from the influx of railroad laborers who built the tracks that went through the village. In its heyday in 1890, Liberty had a population of 469, enough to support three grocery stores, a meat market, a livery, a dry goods store, a hotel, a law office, a hardware store, an undertaker, a lumber yard and barbershops, and its own newspaper, The Liberty Journal. But the money panic of 1893 hit the village particularly hard, and it never recovered from the shock of many farmers selling what they could and leaving town.