Welcome to Lester ...

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

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

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

While we don't have a date for the founding of Lester, you might get a feel for it by knowing that the earliest mention that we've found (so far) was on a map dated 1895.

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

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

Communities Also Named Lester ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 23 communities that are also named Lester - they are located in Alabama (2), Arkansas (2), Colorado, Georgia (2), Illinois, Indiana, Iowa (2), Kansas (2), Michigan, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Utah, Washington and West Virginia.

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

Adding Lester to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Lester in the FIPS-55 file. For more information, see the Referenced FIPS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Lester was on a map titled Map of Nebraska (from Rand McNally, 1895).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Lester.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Webster County: www.co.webster.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 Lester, 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 Webster, 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 Lester area will be assigned with one of these codes: 402 or 531. As a result, placing a call in the Lester area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).