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Lexington is a city on the Platte River in south-central Nebraska and the county seat of Dawson County; with 10,348 residents in 2020 it was Nebraska's 16th most populous city.

Lexington began as a frontier trading post in 1860, and after the post was destroyed the Army established Fort Plum Creek nearby in 1864; the town itself was founded in 1871 under the name Plum Creek before being renamed Lexington.

In the 1860s the settlement was a stop on the Pony Express route along the Platte River.

A historical marker on U.S. Route 30 about 3.5 miles west of Lexington marks the Plum Creek Railroad Attack of August 7, 1867, when Cheyenne warriors derailed a Union Pacific freight train during construction of the transcontinental railroad, killing three railroad employees.

The 2020 census counted 10,348 people in Lexington living in 3,258 households, and the city's median age of 30.8 years makes it one of Nebraska's youngest cities.

Hispanic or Latino residents made up 65.2 percent of Lexington's population in the 2020 census, one of the highest shares of any city in Nebraska, reflecting decades of immigration drawn by meatpacking jobs.

Lexington's population jumped by more than half in a single decade, from 6,601 in 1990 to 10,011 in 2000, after a large beef packing plant opened in the former Sperry New Holland factory.

The Sperry New Holland combine plant had been Lexington's industrial anchor until it closed in 1985, eliminating 940 jobs; Iowa Beef Packers bought the plant in 1989 and converted it to beef packing, and Tyson Foods acquired it in 2001.

In November 2025, Tyson Foods announced it would close the Lexington beef plant in January 2026, laying off about 3,200 employees — a blow to a city whose modern growth was built around the plant.

Lexington is the home of KRVN, the flagship station of the Nebraska Rural Radio Association, a cooperative owned by farmers and ranchers that has broadcast from the city since 1951.