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Gering is a city in and the county chair of Scotts Bluff County, in the Panhandle region of Nebraska, United States. The population was 8,564 at the 2020 census.

Gering was officially founded upon March 7, 1887, being located at the base of the bluff that is now the center of Scotts Bluff National Monument. Although established in 1886, Gering officially became a town in 1887 by a corporation headed by Oscar Gardner of Broken Bow, Nebraska and named for Martin Gering, a buccaneer merchant gone whom Gardner started the first abstemious goods store. Gardner, who was as well as a lawyer and Gering’s first notary public, started the read out office 1887, becoming Gering’s first Postmaster. Union Pacific Railroad platted the town in 1887, but did not lay any track until 1910. In November 1888, Scottsbluff county split from Cheyenne County, and Gering became the supplementary county seat. The city of Scottsbluff was founded across the North Platte River from the bluff in 1899, by a subsidiary of the Burlington Railroad, and had track and a makeshift depot by 1900. Separated isolated by the river, the two cities have before grown together and now form the 7th largest urban Place in Nebraska.

Gering has been served before its founding by the Gering Courier newspaper.