Welcome to Cottonwood Springs ...

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

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

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

While we don't have a date for the founding of Cottonwood Springs, you might consider that their post office opened in 1862.

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

The Area Code where Cottonwood Springs was located: 308

Communities Also Named Cottonwood Springs ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 3 communities that are also named Cottonwood Springs - they are located in Colorado, Kansas and Nevada.

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

Adding Cottonwood Springs to Our Gazetteer ...

The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned Cottonwood Springs was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

X2X - From that list, the Cottonwood Springs post office opened in 1862.

We also found Cottonwood Springs in the book titled List of Post Offices in the United States (1870).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Cottonwood Springs.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Lincoln County: www.co.lincoln.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 Cottonwood Springs, 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 Lincoln, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/