Valentine is a city in Cherry County, Nebraska, United States. The population was chinese valentine,737 at the 2010 census.
It is the county seat of Cherry County. The Valentine post office was established on December 4, 1882. The Sioux City and Pacific Railroad was extended to that point and train service began on April 1, 1883. It was named for Edward K. As late as 1967, Valentine was split between two time zones. As described in one news report, “The mountain and central time zones meet at the center of Main Street, so an hour separates the two curb lines.
Valentine participates in an annual re-mailing program where thousands of pieces of mail flow into the local United States Post Office so that they can be re-mailed with a special Valentine’s Day postmark and verse. In 2007, National Geographic Adventure magazine included Valentine in its list of the best 100 adventure towns and cities. In the Lakota language, Valentine is known as Oínažiŋ or Mnináȟaȟa Otȟúŋwahe, meaning “station stopping place” or “water and waterfall city”. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.
Valentine is immediately north of the Niobrara River, on the northern edge of the Sandhills physiographic region. Just south of Valentine, a pair of bridges span the Niobrara River. The modern bridge carries traffic north and south along U. Just to the west, an arched cantilever truss bridge named the Bryan Bridge is also open to through traffic. Precipitation is low, with an annual average of around 20. 6 millimetres in 1894 to 32.
As of the census of 2010, there were 2,737 people, 1,259 households, and 719 families living in the city. There were 1,430 housing units at an average density of 644. There were 1,259 households, of which 24. 65 years of age or older.
The average household size was 2. The median age in the city was 46 years. The gender makeup of the city was 47. As of the census of 2000, there were 2,820 people, 1,209 households, and 733 families living in the city. There were 1,373 housing units at an average density of 682.
The racial makeup of the city was 92. There were 1,209 households, out of which 28. 27 and the average family size was 2. In the city, the population was spread out, with 26. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 87. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 80.
James Dahlman, Omaha mayor from 1906 to 1930. Clayton Danks, model of the Wyoming state symbol of the cowboy on a bucking horse, homesteaded near Valentine. Patrick Deuel, formerly one of the world’s heaviest people. Rebecca Donaldson, fictional character on Full House, states that her hometown was Valentine. Senator, operates a ranch near Valentine. Edward Day Cohota was a Chinese born and an ethnic Chinese veteran who fought in American Civil War and later served thirty years in the army. Lyman Lloyd Bryson, CBS Radio broadcaster and American educator.
Bryson moderated CBS Radio’s The American School of the Air during the 1940s. 2012, an independent feature film, The Aviation Cocktail, had its principal photography in Valentine. Official records for Valentine kept at the Weather Bureau Office from July 1889 to July 20, 1955 and at Miller Field since July 21, 1955. Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies. Valentine Cachet Valentine municipal website, 2007. US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990″.