Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Gibbon, NE

Gibbon is a city in Buffalo County, Nebraska, and is part of the Kearney micropolitan area.

Gibbon was founded in the spring of 1871 by a colony of settlers, many of them Civil War veterans, on the south side of Wood River about two miles north of the Platte River.

The city was named for Major General John Gibbon, a Union Army officer in the Civil War.

Gibbon was the first county seat of Buffalo County: a large brick courthouse was built there in 1872 at a cost of $22,000, but voters moved the seat to Kearney in 1874, and the old courthouse was later sold to the Gibbon school district for just $2,200.

The 2020 census counted 1,878 people in Gibbon; at the 2010 census the city had 1,833 people in 654 households.

Hispanic or Latino residents made up 32.4% of Gibbon's population at the 2010 census, one of the higher shares in central Nebraska.

Gibbon was flooded three times in 2019 — in March, July, and August — when the Wood River came over its banks during the Midwestern floods.

U.S. Route 30 passes through Gibbon, and the city sits a few miles north of Interstate 80 in the Platte River valley.

Television talk show host Dick Cavett and Edwin Sutherland, a founder of modern criminology, were both born in Gibbon.

The city covers just 0.87 square miles at an elevation of 2,064 feet.