Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Superior, NE

Superior is a city in Nuckolls County in south-central Nebraska, the county's largest community — though the county seat is the smaller village of Nelson — sitting on the Republican River about a mile north of the Kansas state line.

Superior's post office opened in 1872, the town was platted in 1875 and incorporated in 1879, and its name was chosen to boast of the superior quality of the surrounding farmland.

Superior bills itself as the 'Victorian Capital of Nebraska' and holds an annual Victorian Festival; its downtown is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and many of its older homes have been restored to their Victorian appearance.

The 1898 Kendall House, one of Superior's showcase Victorian homes, opens for tours during the Victorian Festival.

Superior grew up around Evelene Brodstone, who rose from a local bookkeeping job to become one of the highest-paid businesswomen in America and, by marriage, the British baroness Lady Vestey.

In 1887 the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway built its 'Strong City line' into Superior, and locals still call the present-day BNSF line through town 'the Santa Fe.'

From 1956 to 1958 Superior was one of the smallest cities in America with a professional baseball team, the Superior Senators of the Nebraska State League, and it was the first professional stop of Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Kaat, who went on to win 283 major league games.

Superior's population peaked at 3,227 in 1950; the 2020 census counted 1,825 residents, and at the 2010 census they lived in 948 households with a median age of 51.3 years, among the oldest of any Nebraska community.

Superior built a Carnegie library in 1907 and the Brodstone Memorial Hospital in 1928, landmarks of its prosperous early decades.

Superior is the hometown of Ed Weir, an All-American football and track star at the University of Nebraska whose name now adorns the university's Ed Weir Stadium track and field complex in Lincoln.