Northport 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 Morrill County,

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, United States.

History

Northport was connected to The Burlington route in 1900 when the CB&Q built a branch from

Alliance, Nebraska Alliance is a city in and the county seat of Box Butte County, Nebraska, Box Butte County, in the western part of the state of Nebraska, in the Great Plains region of the United States. Its population was 8,151 at the 2020 census. Alliance is ho ...

. A post office was established at Northport in 1910, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1975. Northport was named from its location on the north bank of the North Platte River.
1925 edition
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University of Nebraska—Lincoln Digital Commons.
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References

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