Editing Beaver City, Nebraska (section)

==History==
Beaver City was [[plat]]ted in 1872.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/counties/furnas/beavercity/ | title=Beaver City, Furnas County | publisher=University of Nebraska | work=Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies | access-date=9 August 2014 | archive-date=December 9, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211209050056/https://casde.unl.edu/history/counties/furnas/beavercity/ | url-status=dead }}</ref> It was named after Beaver Creek, which was named for the abundance of [[North American beaver]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=27260 | title=Profile for Beaver City, NE | publisher=[[ePodunk]] | access-date=8 August 2014 | archive-date=May 14, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190514233429/http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=27260 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dlas_EPVGFEC | title=Nebraska Place-Names | publisher=University of Nebraska Press | author=Fitzpatrick, Lillian L. | year=1960 | pages=62}} A [http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=englishunsllc 1925 edition] is available for download at [http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/ University of Nebraska—Lincoln Digital Commons.]</ref>

United States Senator [[George W. Norris]] (R-Nebraska) began his law career in Beaver City, moving here after law school at [[Valparaiso University]] in [[Indiana]]. He later moved to [[McCook, Nebraska|McCook]], a larger city.