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About Paxton, NE

Paxton is a small Nebraska town of 622 people along US Highway 30, about 20 miles east of Ogallala. It sits in cattle ranching country where the Sandhills meet the prairie, serving as a quiet stop on the old Lincoln Highway transcontinental route. The town's grain elevator towers over the railroad tracks and can be seen for miles across the flat grasslands.

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Paxton, NE is in United States, at 41.123, -101.352 - about 20 km west of Sutherland, NE.

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The closest airport to Paxton, NE is North Platte Regional Airport Lee Bird Field, 63 km (about 44 min by car).

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