Nebraska is a Top State for Site Selectors

In 2019, Nebraska won Site Selection Magazine’s Governor’s Cup. This award recognizes the state as a great place to do business, with a competitive workforce, product and sites for development.

Find Your Site in Thayer County, Nebraska

Being located on the border of Kansas gives business owners the opportunity to easily serve and access from the Kansas and Nebraska market which allows for companies to grow and thrive.

Business owners looking to relocate have access to scenic, abundant affordable property prime and ready for development and expansion. With existing professional industries such as healthcare, manufacturing, agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting and administrative support, Thayer county is prime and ready for success.

Businesses in Thayer County have access to a dedicated, hard working talent pool that is made up of 11 cities (Alexandria, Belvidere, Bruning, Carleton, Chester, Davenport, Deshler, Gilead, Hebron and Hubbell). Hebron, the county seat, is home to Southeast Community College Learning Center which offers adult education to the entire county. With a median age of 47, highly educated, highly motivated, and highly experienced existing and future workforce is found right within Thayer County. The county offers many modern amenities for business owners, tourists and local residents.

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Location Advantages

Thayer County is located in the southeast region of the state and directly lines the border of Kansas. Six US state highways offer access northeast to Omaha NE, southeast to Kansas City KS, and west to Denver CO. Looking at a map you will find that Thayer County is home to two major US highways, Highway 81 and highway 136 with a daily traffic count of 4,380.

The county is in close proximity to 3 airports including Lincoln Airport, Omaha Airport, Grand Island Regional Airport, in addition to its very own local Hebron Municipal Airport which is continually making improvements to accommodate most business travel including airport hangar rental.

Two rivers flow through the county. Big Sandy Creek flows southeast and east through the northern part of the county and Rose Creek flows northeastward through the SE corner of the county (they converge east of Thayer County's east boundary line.

Available Sites

Thayer County is rich in real estate and readily available sites that are zoned agriculture, commercial, office, food and beverage and warehouse and storage. We have sites with direct interstate access, sites near rail, and the space for all types of businesses to grow.

Alexandria

  • 6 available sites zoned for agriculture

Belvidere

  • 5 available sites zoned for agriculture
  • 1 available sites zoned for commercial
  • 3 available sites zoned for office, food and beverage and warehouse and storage

Bruning

  • 6 available sites zoned for agriculture
  • 11 available sites zoned for commercial
  • 8 available sites zoned for service, retail, office, automotive and food and beverage

Carleton

  • 7 available sites zoned agriculture
  • 5 available sites zoned commercial
  • 5 available sites zoned for service, retail, office, automotive and food and beverage

Chester

  • 6 available sites zoned agriculture
  • 9 available sites zoned commercial
  • 3 available sites zoned light industrial/manufacturing

Davenport

  • 11 available sites zoned agriculture
  • 8 available sites zoned commercial
  • 1 available sites zoned light industrial/manufacturing
  • 5 available sites zoned for service, entertainment, automotive and food and beverage

Deshler

  • 7 available sites zoned agriculture
  • 10 available sites zoned commercial
  • 7 available sites zoned service, retail, automotive, food and beverage, warehouse and storage

Gilead

  • 2 available sites zoned commercial

Hebron

  • 13 available sites zoned agriculture
  • 39 available sites zoned commercial
  • 16 available sites zoned retail
  • 21 available sites zoned office
  • 3 available sites zoned food and beverage
  • 4 available sites zoned light industrial/manufacturing
  • 16 service, automotive, warehouse and storage

Hubbell

  • 4 available sites zoned agriculture
  • 1 available sites zoned commercial
  • 1 available sites zoned food and beverage
  • 2 available sites zoned warehouse and storage