Hadar, NE

Hadar is a village in Pierce County, Nebraska, United States. The 2020 census counted 280 residents. Hadar is part of the Norfolk, Nebraska Micropolitan Statistical Area. Hadar was platted in 1883, soon after the arrival of the railroad. Immanuel Lutheran School is a Christian school of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod in Hadar. Hadar's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Nebraska setting. The local scoop is how Hadar's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. The name Hadar is derived from a German word meaning "strife" or "discord", and the town was so named when the original group of German pioneers could not agree on where to settle.