Exeter, NE

Exeter is a village in Fillmore County, Nebraska, United States. The 2020 census counted 516 residents. Horace Greeley Smith and his wife filed a homestead claim at the site of present-day Exeter. In an earlier scouting trip, Smith had determined that the site would lie near the line of the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad as it extended itself westward. Exeter's city park, also known as Gilbert's Park, is located at 110 E. The Aquatic Center, built in 2009, is also located in the park. The short version is that Exeter carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Exeter: its past remains attached to the places people use now.