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I always wondered...what do people in western Nebraska consider to be western?

I worked with a guy from "Binklemen or Dinklemen" can't remember, is that western?  What about Sargent or Merna?  Hersey?  

I say North Platte is as far east as western Nebraska goes. I include Cherry county as western nebraska, and the other counties south of North Platte are also counted as western nebraska.

So like 5-6 hours from Omaha?

Is Chadron the farest west or is that Sydney?  

Chadron is in the northwest Panhandle. Sidney is in the southwest part of the panhandle.

All of the Panhandle is a part of Western Nebraska

I graduated from Chadron State. We had the winter storm Atlus in 2012 that damaged 1,000 trees and left most without power. The April before that we had a storm of 24 inches. It snowed on two of my four last days of school. 

Western Nebraska's winter weather is crazy. 

Yep. In Gering, we had very little snow this winter until the last few weeks. In the last 10 days or so we have had 12" or so, and now this blizzard is coming. Oh well. It is Nebraska.

@teachercd Benkelman. Right along the Kansas border, and not far from Colorado.

A buddy of mine took me to the sandhills to his uncles place...gravel/sand roads, tons of open land, dogs all over, kids on ATV's all over, it was something else!

10"-18"....ouch. We're supposed to get 4"-8" with wind in Greeley on Wednesday. And I thought we were gonna get it but yours sounds.....not fun.

Oops, now ours is 8"-12" hnoes

You can thank all of the smug westerners who thought it would be fun to mock easterners the last few weeks.

In seriousness, though - stay safe.

I don't know how many times when I was in Lincoln someone would ask where I was from and I'd say "western Nebraska" that their response would be "Kearney?"  I'd smile and think "well, you'd be almost half-way there when you got to Kearney."

I think it's funny how people from Omaha and Lincoln have no clue what's what in Western Nebraska. It's not like there's that much out there to figure out. :lol:

I worked with a guy from Benkelman and went to college with a another guy from Benkelman.  Unsurprisingly they knew each other.

Hahaha!

Did they know each other just by first name?
 

"Oh yeah, in college I knew a guy from Benkelman (co-worker cuts you off)..."I bet it was Colt, right?"

You standing there thinking to yourself "What the f#&%"

As an easterner whose dad was from Mitchell, I always considered western Nebraska somewhere after Kearney where you start to see the rock formations come out of the ground. I couldn't tell you exactly where it started but I know it when I see it, and it's beautiful!

March coming in like a lion for the panhandle! Be safe.

If you are from Omaha, western Nebraska starts at Lincoln.

If you are from Lincoln, western Nebraska starts at Grand Island.

If you are from Grand Island, western Nebraska starts at North Platte.

If you are from North Platte, western Nebraska starts at Sydney.

If you are from Sydney, western Nebraska starts at Wyoming.

As someone who grew up in Western Nebraska, I agree with @The Murphinator; I've always considered the line for Western Nebraska to start at North Platte: North Platte to Grand Island/Hastings is Central Nebraska, and everything east of GI is Eastern Nebraska. 

@The Dude It would have been more impressive had two people from Benkleman NOT known each other.  

Yep. I always thought it made sense for that to be the line because the time change occurred at North Platte.