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North Bend is a city in Dodge County in eastern Nebraska, set on the north bank of the Platte River at the river's northernmost bend in the state.

The site was settled in 1856 by a party of Scottish immigrants traveling from Lake Zurich, Illinois, toward Kansas; after joining a Fourth of July celebration at the townsite of Emerson and worrying over the 'Border War' in Kansas, they decided to stay and founded their own townsite called Franklin.

Those settlers brought with them a steam-powered sawmill and meal grinder — the first steam mill in Dodge County.

In 1858, Emerson was renamed Wallace, after a Philadelphia philanthropist who had offered to build a library for any town taking his name, and in the 1860s a pontoon bridge across the Platte linked the town with the farms south of the river.

The town took its present name in 1864, when the Union Pacific bought ground for a depot at the spot surveys had long labeled 'the north bend,' the railroad's northernmost point in Nebraska; the first train arrived in 1866, and the railroad platted the town in 1867.

The 2020 census counted 1,279 residents in North Bend, up 8.7 percent from 2010, when the city had 1,177 residents in 447 households.

North Bend's population peaked at 1,368 in the 1980 census; by 1920 the town already had electricity, a waterworks, and paved streets.

The North Bend Eagle, a weekly newspaper formed in November 1897 by the merger of the North Bend Argus and the North Bend Republican, is the city's oldest continuously operating business.

North Bend Central Public Schools, which also serves the nearby communities of Morse Bluff and Ames, is the city's largest employer.

Actress Marg Helgenberger, known for CSI and China Beach, hails from North Bend, as did Charles H. Purcell, the chief engineer responsible for the design and construction of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge.