Hazelbank Financial, in Kearney, Nebraska, takes funding requests by phone and online form from Buffalo County, NE and nearby towns in neighboring counties. This page lists those places with ZIP Code Business Patterns counts and explains why Kearney, NE is the only place with its own page.
Gibbon, NE, Elm Creek, NE and Pleasanton, NE in Buffalo County, NE
ZIP Code Business Patterns counted 77 employer establishments in ZIP 68840 (Gibbon), including 14 construction employers; 59 in ZIP 68836 (Elm Creek); and 44 in ZIP 68866 (Pleasanton), including 9 construction employers (ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023). Each ZIP covers far more land than its town, so the counts describe the ZIP area, not the town alone.
Requests from these places run the same way as from Kearney, NE: by phone or the online form. Financing for contractors and equipment financing fit the trades that appear in these ZIP counts.
Ravenna, NE and the Northern Part of Buffalo County, NE
ZIP 68869 (Ravenna) had 65 employer establishments in 2023, including 9 retail and 7 manufacturing employers, and 61.5% of the ZIP's employers had fewer than five employees (ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023).
Smaller places nearby, such as Riverdale, NE (ZIP 68870, 17 employers), Amherst, NE (ZIP 68812, 16) and Miller, NE, have counts too small to describe in detail. Owners there can call or send the form like anyone else.
Minden, NE, Holdrege, NE and Overton, NE Outside Buffalo County, NE
Three towns outside Buffalo County, NE can send requests too. ZIP 68959 (Minden) had 126 employer establishments in 2023, ZIP 68949 (Holdrege, Phelps County, NE) had 289, including 30 health care employers, and ZIP 68863 (Overton, Dawson County, NE) had 33 (ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023).
Buffalo County, NE figures do not describe these towns, which sit in other counties, so only their own ZIP counts appear here. Funding partners decide whether a request from any of them fits their programs.
Shelton, NE and Kenesaw, NE to the East of Kearney, NE
ZIP 68876 (Shelton) had 37 employer establishments in 2023 and ZIP 68956 (Kenesaw, Adams County, NE) had 26 (ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023). Both are small enough that the counts say little beyond their size.
Owners in either village can send a request by phone or the online form, and it is handled the same way as one from Kearney, NE.
Villages and Rural Places Close to Kearney, NE
Glenwood, NE, Odessa, NE and Poole, NE in Buffalo County, NE, and Axtell, NE (ZIP 68924, 29 employers), Wilcox, NE (ZIP 68982, 20), Heartwell, NE, Norman, NE and Funk, NE to the south, are small places where a ZIP count describes very few businesses (ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023). Requests from any of them are welcome by phone or form.
Buffalo County, NE as a whole had 1,777 employer establishments in 2023 (County Business Patterns 2023) and 4,486 businesses without paid employees in 2024 (Nonemployer Statistics 2024); these are separate Census programs and are not added together.
Why Kearney, NE Is the Only Place With Its Own Page on This Site
A town gets a page here only when enough figures specific to that town exist to say something useful. For the places above, the figures available are ZIP-level, and each ZIP covers a much larger area than its town, so a separate page would repeat county facts with a new name on top. The Kearney, NE page carries the county and ZIP 68847 figures in full.
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