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Former town and first county seat · Garfield County · county seat 1884–1890

About Willow Springs

Willow Springs was the first county seat of Garfield County, a few miles from Burwell in the southwestern part of the county. Nothing of the town is known to remain; Willow Springs Road, home of Kamp Kaleo on the North Loup, keeps the name.

History

When Garfield County was organized in 1884, after voters separated it from Wheeler County in 1881, Willow Springs became the county seat. The Burlington branch reached Burwell in 1887, and in 1890 the seat moved to Burwell, which had the railroad; Willow Springs was soon abandoned. An old gazetteer described it as about four miles from Burwell, at the end of the Palmer and Burwell branch of the B&M.


Nearby towns

Burwellabout 4 mi (1880s gazetteer)County roads
Taylorwest along NE 91NE 91

Things to see

Kamp Kaleo on Willow Springs Road · Burwell and the Garfield County Frontier Fairgrounds


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