Emergency Biohazard Cleanup Services in Terrytown, NE

Terrytown is a small city in Scotts Bluff County in Nebraska's Panhandle, sitting on the bank of the North Platte River between the larger cities of Scottsbluff and Gering.

Terrytown, Scottsbluff and Gering have grown together across the river to form the Scottsbluff micropolitan area, the seventh-largest urban area in Nebraska.

Terrytown was founded in 1949 by Terry Carpenter, a flamboyant Scottsbluff businessman and politician, and it was officially recognized as a village on June 2, 1949.

Carpenter had first tried to incorporate a town on the site in 1937, but that attempt was defeated.

Terry Carpenter served in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1933–35, was elected mayor of Scottsbluff in 1947, and later served 22 years in the Nebraska Legislature; the Omaha World-Herald nicknamed him “Terrible Terry” during his Depression-era gasoline price wars.

Carpenter built Terrytown on low, marshy river-bottom land, operating a brick factory whose bricks built houses and 48 apartments that he reserved for families with children amid the post–World War II housing shortage.

Terry's Lake, the community's centerpiece, began as the sand-and-gravel pit dug for Carpenter's brickworks; the flooded pit is now a 7-acre lake stocked with trout, perch, catfish and northern pike, overlooked by Carpenter Park.

In its early years Terrytown offered liquor by the drink before Scottsbluff allowed it, and it hosted a radio station, a drive-in movie theater and two restaurants.

The 2020 census counted 1,057 people in Terrytown.

At the 2010 census Terrytown had 1,198 residents in 436 households, with a median age of just 28.4 years, and 42.2% of its residents were Hispanic or Latino.