Bow Valley, NE

Bow Valley is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Cedar County, Nebraska, United States. The 2020 census counted 95 residents. A post office was established at Bow Valley in 1871, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1907. The community takes its name from Bow Valley. The short version is that Bow Valley carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Bow Valley: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Bow Valley is located in northern Cedar County, in the valley of West Bow Creek, a tributary of the Missouri River. Nebraska Highway 12 passes one mile north of the community, leading east 33 miles to Ponca and west 12 miles to Crofton.