BEATRICE, a city of Nebraska, U.S.A., 4om. S. of Lincoln, in the fertile valley of the Big Blue river, the county seat of Gage county. It is on Federal highway 77, and is served by the Bur lington, the Rock Island and the Union Pacific railways. The population in 1930 was 10,297.
Hydro-electric power is available, and the city is an important manufacturing centre. Its diversified products include silos, show cases, mirrors, cultivators, steel tanks, hardware specialties, wind mills and gasolene engines. There are large stone-quarries in the vicinity, and deposits of clay suitable for brick and earthenware. The State institution for the feeble minded is here. Beatrice was founded in 1857; the first railway reached it in 1871; and it was chartered as a city in 1873.