About Cordova
Cordova is a village in the south-west corner of Seward County, in south-eastern Nebraska. It is small, covering about a quarter of a square mile. The 2020 census counted 92 residents. The village falls within the Lincoln metropolitan statistical area, and farm ground surrounds it on every side.
History
The Pioneer Town Site Company platted Cordova in 1887, the year the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad was extended to that point. A post office has operated under the Cordova name since 1888. Early settlers in the area came largely from Denmark and Germany. The village reached its peak in the early 1900s, when the population passed 300. The Chicago and North Western Railroad later took over the line, and service ended after floods took out bridges near Superior. A short line operator tried to keep trains running, but the track was dismantled in 1976.
How Cordova got its name
The settlement was first called Hunkins, after the pioneer settler Benjamin Hunkins. His son Clarence kept the store and served as the first postmaster. The postal department turned the name down because it was too close to Hoskins, an existing post office in Wayne County. Cordova was chosen instead, after Cordova in Spain, because no other place in Nebraska carried that name.
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Cordova was platted in 1887 as the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad extended to the site, originally named “Hunkins” for pioneer Benjamin Hunkins before being renamed for Córdoba, Spain to avoid a duplicate post-office name.
The smallest of Seward County's ten municipalities, Cordova had a 2020 population of 92.
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