Welcome to Branch ...

So far, we found very little information about Branch. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Branch to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Branch - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Branch, please Contact Us.

While we don't have the exact location of Branch , we believe that it would have been located within present day Cedar County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Branch, you might consider that their post office opened in 1884.

Time Zone: The area where Branch was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

The Area Codes where Branch was located: 402 & 531<3>

Communities Also Named Branch ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 15 communities that are also named Branch - they are located in Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New York (2), Newfoundland and Labrador, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Branch.

Adding Branch to Our Gazetteer ...

The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned Branch was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

X2X - From that list, the Branch post office opened in 1884.

We also found Branch on a map titled Rand McNally Map of Nebraska (1895).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Branch.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Cedar County: www.co.cedar.ne.us/

The official website for State of Nebraska: https://www.nebraska.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>	We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Branch, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of Nebraska's counties, including Cedar, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 402 code has been Overlayed with the 531 area code. New phone numbers in the Branch area will be assigned with one of these codes: 402 or 531. As a result, placing a call in the Branch area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/