Spalding, Nebraska
village in Greeley County, Nebraska, United States
Spalding is a village in Greeley County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 408 at the 2020 census.
History
Spalding was originally called Halifax, and under the latter name was founded in 1875 by a colony of Irish Catholics. It was renamed in 1881 in honor of bishop John Lancaster Spalding.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.32 square miles (0.83 km2), all of it land.
Demographics
2010 census
As of the census of 2010, there were 487 people, 217 households, and 128 families residing in the village. The population density was 1,521.9 inhabitants per square mile (587.6/km2). There were 254 housing units at an average density of 793.8 per square mile (306.5/km2). The racial makeup of the village was 96.3% White, 0.6% African American, 0.4% Native American, 2.3% from other races, and 0.4% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.7% of the population.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Spalding, Nebraska” as village in Greeley County, Nebraska, United States. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as village in Greeley County, Nebraska, United States. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2674312. Authority coordinates are 41.689, -98.364. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020, 1875, 1881 and 2010.
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