Douglas

Douglas began as a pre-emption claim staked by Hiram Hendricks in 1856, with a post office named "Hendricks" opening in 1863. The townsite was platted around 1888 by Simpson McKibbon, Tom Smith, and Nebraska City lawyer Thomas B. Stevenson, and the post office was renamed Douglas that same year. The village sits in the southwest corner of Otoe County and celebrated its centennial in 1988, dated from its 1888 platting and renaming.

Douglas, in Otoe County's southwest corner, traces to an 1856 settlement originally known as Hendricks.