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Shelby is a village in Polk County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 714 at the 2010 census . Shelby lies along the north side of U.S. Highway 81 near the eastern edge of Polk County.
Nebraska has 93 counties.They are listed below by name, FIPS code and license plate prefix. Nebraska's postal abbreviation is NE and its FIPS state code is 31.. When many counties were formed, the bills establishing them did not state the honoree's full name; thus the namesakes of several counties, including Brown, Deuel, Dixon, and possibly Harlan, are known only by their surnames.
Its county seat is Osceola. [2] The county was formed in 1856, and was organized in 1870. [3] [4] [5] It was named for President James K. Polk. [6] In the Nebraska license plate system, Polk County is represented by the prefix 41 (it had the 41st-largest number of vehicles registered in the county when the license plate system was established ...
Alex Londo, Shelby County’s emergency coordinator said there has been substantial property damage. “First responders are out assessing the needs at this time,” Londo told CNN.
Fifteen people were injured in Shelby, which was barely spared from a direct strike. [3] The National Weather Service in Hastings, Nebraska documented that at least a dozen farms were leveled in the first 30 miles (48 km) of the tornado's track. [3] The tornado had a width of 0.25 miles (0.40 km) for most of its life. [1]
In 1906, the Shelby County Bank and First National Bank were consolidated under the name of the Shelby County State Bank. In May 1911, H.P. Dowling presided as bank President and by 1913 the deposits of the bank had reached a total of $780,000. In 1933, The Farmers and Merchants Savings Bank of Harlan merged with The Shelby County State Bank.
Incorporated communities in Nebraska are legally classified as cities or villages, depending on their population: [3] a village is a municipality of 100 through 800 inhabitants, whereas a city must have at least 800 inhabitants. There are 528 municipalities. Of Nebraska's 528 municipalities, 147 are cities and 381 are villages.
Nebraska is the 16th-largest state by land area, with just over 77,220 square miles ... The center of population of Nebraska is in Polk County, in the city of Shelby.