Welcome to Axtell
This website was designed to bring the community of Axtell easy access to important information and upcoming events. This website is a work in progress and your comments and suggestions will help us make this site more useful for everyone.
Enjoy your stay and check back often for updates.

      Axtell has shown great signs of progress in the last few years. In the center of Axtell you will find the newly remodeled Axtell Community School. You will also find a newly remodeled Community Hall and on the south end of main street you will see the new grocery store being built. Axtell also has new areas of housing development for the growing community.
      The school and churches are hubs of the community, which still have the small-town, Midwestern lifestyle desired by many.
Basic economic activities in Axtell include farming and farm related occupations. In addition to the local businesses, Axtell is known for Mosaic - Bethphage Village of Axtell, which began providing services for the developmentally disabled in 1913.
      Axtell is governed by a village board consisting of five members.  Max Popple is Chairman and other members include Steve Popple, Tom Swedburg, Glenn Frecks, and Jeff Nelson.  Vicki Nelson is the Village Clerk/Treasurer.  The Village Office is open Monday through Friday from 9 am until 11 am and 1 pm until 3 pm and can be reached at (308) 743-2437.

To learn more about the economic and demographic trends in the Axtell area, please visit one of the links below:

  • Axtell Community Profile
  • Axtell Village (2000 Census Population Characteristics)
  • Kearney County (2000 Census Population Characteristics)
  • Axtell GIS Search (Census 2006 & 2011 estimates, 10, 30 & 50 mile radii)
  • Kearney County (Census 2006 & 2011 estimates, county)
  • To find directions to Axtell click here.

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    Website designed by Dustin Carlson and hosted by NPPD.
    A special thanks to all who have contributed information for this website, especially Bruce Anderbery, who
    has spent a great deal of time contacting people and gathering information.