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Summit’s history is
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The story so far

from Wikipedia & the U.S. Census

Summit Township is one of seventeen townships in Butler County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 193 at the 2020 census. A 2021 estimate placed the township's population at 195.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 178 to 190 (+7%). Half of its homes were built before 1995.

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Summit yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.

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Summit, decade by decade

Before
2000
No old photos in the archives yetWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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National Register of Historic Places

Nothing in Summit is on the National Register yet

That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Summit has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Clear Creek Bridge in Alexis, 8.7 miles away.

Summit and the nearest listed places

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Clear Creek BridgeChauncey S. Taylor HouseThorpe's Opera HouseDavid City Park and Municipal AuditoriumColumbus Izaak Walton League LodgeSurprise Opera House

Closest to Summit

Clear Creek BridgeAlexis · Structure8.7miChauncey S. Taylor HouseOlive · Building9.3miThorpe's Opera HouseDavid City · Built 188910miDavid City Park and Municipal AuditoriumDavid City · Built 194110.2miColumbus Izaak Walton League LodgeColumbus · Built 193810.6mi

How a place gets listed

1Talk to the stateEvery nomination goes through the State Historic Preservation Office. Owners, towns and historical societies can start one.
2Try a local or state list firstMany states keep their own register with a shorter form, a common first step for old barns, halls and schoolhouses.
3Write it upA nomination covers the history, photos and a map. Clear Creek Bridge’s page links to a real one.
Know an old place in Summit?A mill, a schoolhouse, a cellar hole, a church: add a photo of it to Summit’s story, or a memory of it.
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National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places · photos from Wikimedia Commons

Then & now

When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.

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📜 Rising City📜 Reading📜 Olive📜 Alexis
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