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Unincorporated community · Lancaster County · Population 286 (2020 census) · Peak population 476 (1990)

About Yankee Hill

Yankee Hill is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (286 people in 2020) on the southwest edge of Lincoln in Lancaster County, at about 1,188 feet, covering about 4 square miles. Yankee Hill Wildlife Management Area lies about 4 miles southwest, near Denton.

History

Yankee Hill was an early settlement near where the Nebraska City–Fort Kearny trail crossed Salt Creek. When the commissioners toured for a site for the new state capital in 1867, “the ladies of Yankee Hill” served them a chicken dinner with ice cream, but the capital went to Lincoln. Yankee Hill Brick, founded in 1881, made the bricks for the inner structure of the State Capitol in the 1920s, shipping them by its own rail siding; in 2018 it made about 30 million bricks a year and was one of two brick makers left in Nebraska. Yankee Hill Cemetery, first called Pleasant Hill, has evidence of burials from the late 1840s; its association took the Yankee Hill name in 1926. The census counted 476 people in 1990 and 286 in 2020.

Nearby towns

Lincoln	about 4 mi northeast	City streets
Denton	about 6 mi west-southwest	County roads
Emerald	about 6 mi west-northwest	County roads
Cheney	about 8 mi east-southeast	County roads
Roca	about 8 mi south-southeast	County roads
Martell	about 9 mi south	County roads
Walton	about 9 mi east-northeast	County roads
Sprague	about 10 mi south	County roads
Hickman	about 11 mi south-southeast	County roads
Malcolm	about 12 mi northwest	County roads

Things to see

Yankee Hill Cemetery, first called Pleasant Hill, with burials from the late 1840s · Yankee Hill Wildlife Management Area, about 4 miles southwest

Health care

Hospitals: Bryan Medical Center (East and West), CHI Health St. Elizabeth and Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital, Lincoln, about 4 mi

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau (2020 census-designated places); Citypopulation.de; Wikipedia; Fitzpatrick and Link, Nebraska Place-Names (1960), and Forte postal history as cited by Wikipedia; 1890 Nebraska State Gazetteer (Lancaster County); History Nebraska; National Register; Nebraska Game and Parks; Lower Platte South NRD; TrailLink; KOLN/KGIN (2018); Seeing Lincoln. Distances marked "about" are straight-line estimates.