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Genoa is a city in Nance County in east-central Nebraska, pronounced "je-NO-uh," served by ZIP code 68640.

Genoa was founded by Mormon settlers in 1857, making it one of Nebraska's earliest planned communities.

In the fall of 1859, the Mormon colony was forced to abandon Genoa when the townsite and surrounding land were incorporated into the newly created Pawnee Reservation.

After the Mormons left, the Pawnee Indian Agency took over their vacated buildings, and the Pawnee remained in the Genoa area until their removal to Indian Territory in the 1870s.

In 1884 the federal government opened the Genoa Indian Industrial School in Genoa, the fourth non-reservation Indian boarding school established in the United States, on the former Pawnee Reservation.

The Genoa boarding school operated for fifty years, until 1934, and over that span enrolled more than 4,300 Native American children from more than 40 tribal nations on a campus that grew to about 640 acres.

The school's surviving Manual Training Building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, now houses the Genoa U.S. Indian School Museum.

The 2020 census counted 894 people in 337 households in Genoa, down from the city's peak population of 1,376 residents in 1910.

Genoa is home to Twin River Public Schools, a district formed in 2001 by consolidating the schools of Genoa, Monroe, and Silver Creek, with its elementary school, junior high, and high school all located in Genoa.

Genoa's climate brings about 27.7 inches of precipitation a year, and a weather station west of town has recorded a high of 116 degrees Fahrenheit.