Editing Hallam, Nebraska (section)

==History==
Hallam was [[plat]]ted in 1892 when the [[Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad]] was extended to that point.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/counties/lancaster/hallam/ | title=Hallam, Lancaster County | publisher=University of Nebraska | work=Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies | access-date=August 19, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=InM_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA126 | title=History of Hamilton and Clay Counties, Nebraska, Volume 1 | publisher=S.J. Clarke Publishing Company | author=Burr, George L. | year=1921 | pages=126}}</ref> The land was sold by Frederick Schneider, who was asked to name the village.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://lancaster.ne.gov/hallam/history.aspx|title=Hallam, NE - Historical Background|website=lancaster.ne.gov|access-date=March 25, 2018|archive-date=September 21, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190921140259/http://lancaster.ne.gov/hallam/history.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref> However, Schneider's proposals were already names of towns in Nebraska, so the first landowner in the village, Jacob Schadd, was given the honor of naming the settlement.<ref name=":0" /> Schadd suggested [[Hallau]], after his hometown in Switzerland.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite web | url=http://lancaster.ne.gov/hallam/history.aspx | title=Historical Background | publisher=County of Lancaster, NE | access-date=August 19, 2014 | archive-date=September 21, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190921140259/http://lancaster.ne.gov/hallam/history.aspx | url-status=dead }}</ref> However, due to a transcription error at the post office, the name was recorded as Hallam rather than Hallau,<ref name=":0" /> similar to the error which altered [[Norfolk, Nebraska|Norfork, Nebraska, to Norfolk, Nebraska]].

Mrs. Maggie Classen owned several lots in Hallam, unusual for a woman in the 1890s, upon which were built the telephone office and a doctor's office.<ref name=":0" /> By the early 1900s, Hallam featured a bank, a [[hardware store]], a dry goods store, a shoe shop, a [[druggist]], a [[Livery yard|livery barn]], and a doctor.<ref name=":0" />

In 1962, the second [[Nuclear power in the United States|nuclear power plant in the United States]], the [[Hallam Nuclear Power Facility]], was completed in Hallam.<ref name=":0" /> However, the plant only produced [[nuclear power]] for approximately one year before being converted to [[Coal-power plant|coal power]].<ref name=":0" />

=== 2004 tornado ===
{{main|2004 Hallam tornado}}

On May 22, 2004, Hallam was struck by an [[Fujita scale|F4 tornado]], which killed one person, injured nearly 40 more, and destroyed most of the town.  The tornado's path was {{convert|2.5|mi}} wide, making it the widest tornado on record at the time. That record was broken on May 31, 2013, by the [[2013 El Reno tornado|2.6 mile-wide EF3 wedge tornado]] that hit [[El Reno, Oklahoma]].<ref>Gaarder, Nancy.  [http://www.omaha.com/article/20130604/NEWS/130609899 "Nebraska's deadly Hallam tornado no longer widest on record".] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130629091536/http://www.omaha.com/article/20130604/NEWS/130609899 |date=June 29, 2013 }}  [http://www.omaha.com/ ''Omaha World-Herald''.]  June 5, 2013.  Retrieved 2013-06-28.</ref>