Welcome to Willard ...

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

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

While we don't have the exact location of Willard , 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 Willard, you might consider that their post office opened in 1890.

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

The Area Code where Willard was located: 308

Communities Also Named Willard ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 32 communities that are also named Willard - they are located in Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois (2), Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Manitoba, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, New York (2), North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon (2), Tennessee, Utah (2), Virginia (3), Washington (2), West Virginia and Wisconsin.

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

Adding Willard to Our Gazetteer ...

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

X2X - From that list, the Willard post office opened in 1890.

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

For more details, see References and Mentions for Willard.

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 Willard, 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/