Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Lindy, NE

Lindy is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Knox County in northeastern Nebraska.

Lindy is one of the last towns founded in Nebraska: its townsite was surveyed in 1928 to give local farmers a closer marketing and shopping center.

The town was named for aviator Charles Lindbergh, nicknamed 'Lucky Lindy,' one year after his famous 1927 nonstop solo flight from New York to Paris.

Lindy is located within the Santee Sioux Reservation, about 7 miles south of the Missouri River and the South Dakota border.

In its heyday the community supported a barber shop, a theater, a hardware store, a blacksmith shop, an ice cream parlor and a ball diamond, and it was home to the Addison Telephone Company from 1944 to 1958.

Lindy's population peaked at 45 in 1960 and stood at 38 in 1978; the closure of its feed store and general store in the late 1980s and its gas pumps in the early 1990s shrank the community further.

The 2020 census counted just 13 residents in the Lindy CDP, which covers about one square mile in the valley of Hobo Creek.

Lindy's single church, the Good Shepherd Evangelical Lutheran Church, traces its beginnings to a church that started as a dugout.

The community's remaining gathering places are the Lindy Country Club restaurant and bar and a fire hall, built in 1976 and operated as a station of the Bloomfield Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Unit.

Lindy sits on Nebraska Highway 12 and receives its mail through Bloomfield, using ZIP code 68718.