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Norfolk ( or /ˈnɔːrfoʊk/) is a city in Madison County, Nebraska, United States, 113 miles northwest of Omaha and 83 miles west of Sioux City at the intersection of U.S. Routes 81 and 275. The population was 24,210 at the 2010 census, making it the ninth-largest city in Nebraska. It is the principal city of the Norfolk Micropolitan Statistical Area.

In late 1865 three scouts were sent from a German Lutheran settlement near Ixonia, Wisconsin, to locate productive, inexpensive farmland that could be claimed below the Homestead Act. From the Omaha area they followed the Elkhorn River upstream to West Point. Finding that area too crowded, they continued up the river. On September 15, they reached the junction of the Elkhorn and its North Fork, and chose that area as a agreement site.^: 1–2 On May 23, 1866, a party of 124 settlers representing 42 families from the Ixonia Place set out for northeast Nebraska in three wagon trains. They arrived at the new site upon July 15.^: 8 A second group of settlers from Wisconsin arrived in July 1867.^: 19 These mass wagon parties received the first church in Madison County, St. Paul’s Lutheran, which is yet operating today.

The indigenous name of the colony was a variant of “North Fork”, but accounts differ on the exact name: “Northfork”,^: 32 “Nor’fork”, and “Nordfork” are everything suggested. The make known was submitted to federal postal authorities, and at some narrowing was transmuted to “Norfolk”. Nebraskans typically regard as being it as “Norfork”.