CHADRON, a city of north-western Nebraska, U.S.A., in the heart of the Pine Ridge country, at an altitude of 3,3 7of t. ; the county seat of Dawes county. It is on Federal highway 20 and the Chicago and North Western railway. The population was in 1920 (91% native white), and was 4,606 in 193o by the Federal census. Pine-clad buttes give the city a delightful setting, and the Black hills of South Dakota are visible in the distance. It is the trade centre of a fine cattle and farming region, a division point on the railway, which maintains a roundhouse and machine shops here, and the seat of a State normal college (established 1911) , which has an enrolment of over 1,200. There is a land ing field for aeroplanes at the fair-grounds. The Pine Ridge In dian reservation (in South Dakota) is 35m. north, and 8m. south is a State park, which had 101,90o visitors in 1927. Chadron was settled in 1885 and incorporated in 1886.