Nebraska // Lincoln, NE // Midwest Region // Central/Mountain Time (The Cornhusker State)
Territory established:	May 30, 1854
Statehood granted:	March 1, 1867 // 37th state
Nebraska was formed out of land from the Louisiana Purchase.
[View maps of Louisiana Purchase]

#4305 // April 16, 2010 (self-adhesive coil definitive) Flags of Our Nation Series Nebraska State Flag center-pivot system irrigating a field	#1979 // April 14, 1982 (ex pane of 50 different stamps) State Bird & Flower of Nebraska Western Meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta) and Goldenrod	#1669 // February 23, 1976 (ex pane of 50 different stamps) American Bicentennial Series Nebraska State Flag

Nebraska Overprint Stamps #669 - 679 issued in 1929 and only sold for one year (overprint on regular issues #632 - 642, rotary press printing in 1926/27)
This special issue was authorized as a measure of preventing losses from post office burglaries. Approximately a year's supply was printed and issued to postmasters. The Post Office Department found it desirable to discontinue the State overprinted stamps after the initial supply was used.
[Please refer also to the State of Kansas]
#669 // May 1, 1929 // Beatrice, NE (overprint on original stamp #632 // June 10, 1927)	#670 // April 15, 1929 // Hartington, NE (overprint on original stamp #633 // May 17, 1927)	#671 // May 1, 1929 // Auburn, NE; Hartington, NE; Beatrice, NE (overprint on original stamp #634 // December 10, 1926)
Please click here to view all eleven overprinted stamps and learn more about the reason for the overprint.
Scott catalogue value for stamp set Nos. 669-679 (11) US$ 590 (mint, never hinged), US$ 320 (mint, hinged), US$ 165 (used)

#1060 // May 7, 1954 // Nebraska City, NE Nebraska Territorial Centennial "The Sower", sculpture (1930) spire of the State Capitol in Lincoln, Mitchell Pass and Scotts Bluff	#1328 // July 29, 1967 // Lincoln, NE Nebraska Statehood Centennial Hereford steer and ear of corn

#970 // September 22, 1948 // Minden, NE Fort Kearny "Guardian of the Pioneer" Centennial Bas-relief of a pioneer group and buildings of Fort Kearny

Fort Kearny was the first of many forts built to protect the large numbers of settlers travelling on the Oregon Trail, the longest of the overland routes to the West. The pioneers usually gathered in Independence, MO, and Fort Kearny, nicknamed "Guardian of the Pioneer", was the first stop where new provisions could be purchased. The fort was established in 1848 and originally called Fort Childs, but renamed by the soldiers in honor of General Stephen Watts Kearny, (* 1794, † 1848), US Army commander in the frontier West.

	#1198 // May 20, 1962 // Beatrice, NE The Homestead Act Centennary Settler and his wife in front of a sod hut, which was the common way to build a dwelling in a land with few wood resources
The Homestead Act, signed by President Abraham Linclon on May 20, 1862, speeded Nebraska's settlement. The stamp was issued in Beatrice, NE, near the place where Daniel Freeman (* 1826, † 1908), American physician and Civil War veteran, filed the first claim for land under the new Act on January 1, 1863, the day the Homestead Act went into effect.

#3587 // April 4, 2002 (ex pane of 50 stamps, one for each state) Greetings from Nebraska Illustration of contemporary postcard in the style of the 1930s/1940s View Nebraska state quarter View Nebraska state map View Nebraska clock

	The state name is based on a word of the Oto Indian tribe language, meaning "flat water", referring to the Platte River. Find out more facts & trivia
	Land Area rounded mi2 [km2] 76,872 [199.908] ranked 15th	Population (census 2010) 1,826,341 ranked 38th	Population Density per mi2 [km2] of land area 24 [9] ranked 44th
	The State of Nebraska has 93 counties.