Amelia is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in southwestern Holt County,

Nebraska Nebraska ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Ka ...

, United States. It lies along local roads near Nebraska Highways 11 and 95, southwest of the city of

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, the

county seat A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or parish (administrative division), civil parish. The term is in use in five countries: Canada, China, Hungary, Romania, and the United States. An equiva ...

of Holt County. The community is named for Amelia A. Bliss. Although Amelia is unincorporated, it has a

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, with the ZIP code of 68711.Zip Code Lookup
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Notable people

* Jon Doolittle, singer/songwriter

References

Unincorporated communities in Holt County, Nebraska Unincorporated communities in Nebraska {{HoltCountyNE-geo-stub