Welcome to Watertown ...
So far, we found very little information about Watertown. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Watertown to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Watertown - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Watertown, please Contact Us.
While we don't have the exact location of Watertown , we believe that it would have been located within present day Buffalo County<2>.
While we don't have a date for the founding of Watertown, you might get a feel for it by knowing that during our research the earliest mention that we found (so far) was on a map dated 1895.
Time Zone: The area where Watertown was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time
If Watertown still existed, it would have been in the (308) area code.
Communities Also Named Watertown ...
Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 20 communities that are also named Watertown - they are located in Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois (3), Kansas (3), Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Saskatchewan, South Dakota, Tennessee (2) and Wisconsin.
For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Watertown.
Adding Watertown to Our Gazetteer ...
We originally found mention of Watertown 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 Watertown was on a map titled Map of Nebraska (from Rand McNally, 1895).
We also found Watertown on a map titled Rand McNally Map of Nebraska (1912).
For more details, see References and Mentions for Watertown.
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Buffalo County: www.buffalogov.org/
The official website for State of Nebraska: 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 Watertown, 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 Buffalo, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. |