FALLS CITY, the county seat of Richardson county, Ne braska, U.S.A., in the south-east corner of the State, on Federal highway 73, and served by the Burlington and the Missouri Pacific railways. The population was 4,93o in 1920 (94% native white), and was 5,787 in 1930 by the Federal census. It is in a fine apple-growing country, and ships also large quantities of poultry and poultry products, cattle, hogs and grain. The manufacturing industries include railroad shops, a flour mill and a creamery. Falls City was founded and incorporated in It was named from falls in the Nemaha river, which disappeared when the river was straightened.