Town file
Scottsbluff, Nebraska
Scottsbluff, Nebraska (Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska) is the town in one episode of Small Town Murder, the comedy true-crime podcast: episode 43, "The Definition Of Depravity" (8 November 2017). This episode of Small Town Murder is set in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, in the Panhandle close to the Wyoming border.
- Town
- Scottsbluff
- County
- Scotts Bluff County
- State
- Nebraska
- Country
- USA
- Episodes
- 43
- Approximate location
- 41.868, -103.662
Episode 43 / 8 November 2017 / 117 min / full
The Definition Of Depravity
"James says the show is heading to Scottsbluff, Nebraska, in the far western Panhandle, in Scotts Bluff County on the Wyoming border" about 0:05:32
The case: Murder of Adam Gomez (March 1999). Read the case file.
The figures, as told in 2017
- Median age
- 35.7
- Median household income
- about $37,800
- Median home value
- $110,000
- Two-bedroom rent
- about $680
- Cost of living
- 87
- Religious
- 50%
- Property crime
- ▲ almost double
- Violent crime
- ▼ about 40% lower
- Murders since 2011
- about one
History, in brief
- Scottsbluff was founded in 1899 (officially), across the North Platte River from the bluff known as Scotts Bluff, now Scotts Bluff National Monument. about 0:08:01
- The monument is named after Hiram Scott, a fur trader with the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, who died aged 23, found dead at the base of the bluffs, alone and deserted by his companions according to the town website. about 0:08:30
- The smaller town of Gering, south of the river, was founded in 1887, and the two towns have been merging as they grow. about 0:09:07
- Scotts Bluff County was originally part of Cheyenne County; homesteaders came to western Nebraska from the late 1880s after bad winters hurt open-range cattle farming. about 0:09:22
- In 1888 an election created Scotts Bluff County and several other Panhandle counties, separating them from Cheyenne County. about 0:10:04
- The town was laid out in 1889 or 1899 when the railroad was extended there. about 0:10:52
- Before white settlement the Lakota (Titan Sioux) lived in the area. about 0:11:01
- The population was 1,746 in 1910 and about 7,000 in 1920, an increase of 296 per cent in ten years. about 0:11:39
- Notable people from the county include baseball player Hank Bauer and Brooke Barringer, Miss America 2011, a graduate of Scottsbluff High. about 0:12:11
- Scotts Bluff County's licence plate prefix is 21 because it had the 21st largest number of registered vehicles when the state's plate system began in 1922. about 0:13:15
- The town does not have a slogan; the county slogan is 'Nebraska like you've never seen it'. about 0:07:37
Nearest Small Town Murder towns
- Hillsdale, Wyoming62 miles
- Wheatland, Wyoming68 miles
- Carr, Colorado92 miles
- Greeley, Colorado116 miles
- Longmont, Colorado139 miles
- Sutherland, Nebraska140 miles
Everything here is as told in the episode, on the date it went out; figures and places may have changed since. Endings are covered: open an episode and use the spoiler switch to read them.