Welcome to Purple Cane ...

Purple Cane is located in Dodge County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Purple Cane, you might consider that their post office opened in 1872.

Time Zone: Purple Cane lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Purple Cane: 402 & 531<2>

Adding Purple Cane to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Purple Cane in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Purple Cane was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Purple Cane post office opened in 1872.

We also found Purple Cane in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Purple Cane.

Footnotes ...

<1>	If you're interested in how the shape of Nebraska's counties, including Dodge, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>	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 Purple Cane area will be assigned with one of these codes: 402 or 531. As a result, placing a call in the Purple Cane area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/