Chadron

Chadron, city, seat of Dawes county, northwestern Nebraska, U.S., near the White River, a few miles south of the South Dakota state line, in the Nebraska panhandle. Sioux Indians lived in the region when cattle ranchers arrived in the 1870s. A community called O’Linn soon grew at the site; in 1885 its residents moved a few miles to the southeast, where a railroad had established another town, and changed the name to Chadron. The name...