Butler County Event Center

07/08/2025

Save the Date!

07/08/2025

🎉 We’re officially kicking off our 4-H Fair season tomorrow with the Culinary Challenge and Fashion Show! 🍽️👗 It’s the first step in a week full of fun, hard work, and celebration — and we can’t wait for the full fair experience to begin next week! 🐷🐮🎡

In preparation, we’re asking 4-H members to pitch in and help us get everything ready:

🛠 Static Exhibit Set-Up
📅 Thursday, July 10th at 6:00 PM
📍 Butler County Event Center

🧤 Fairgrounds Clean-Up
📅 Saturday, July 12th at 9:00 AM
📍 Butler County Fairgrounds
🔧 Please bring gloves, hand tools, and any supplies that will help us get the grounds fair-ready!
✨ Club members will earn points toward Herdsmanship for participating in these prep days — so it's a great way to help out and support your club!

Let’s work together to make the 150th year of fair the best one yet. We can’t wait to see what everyone brings to the table next week! 💚

06/22/2025

Congratulations Mr. & Mrs. Eickmeier! Beautiful wedding at almost max capacity for seating! What a great turn out!
Flowers:
402 Floral David City, NE

06/20/2025

On June 16, 2025, Diane Duren, long time supporter of the Butler County Nebraska Fair, presented a program about the history of the fair and Ag Society in Bu...

06/20/2025

Fair memorbilia from the event
Butler County Nebraska Historical Society

06/08/2025

Congratulations to the Pelans!

Decorator: Sharyl Kay

05/26/2025

Congratulations to Mr. & Mrs. Hageman!
And Congratulations to 2025 Grad Makenna!

05/20/2025

In April of 1935, the Butler County Fair Ground became the headquarters of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Over 200 young men lived in tents as they used lumber from the dismantled CCC camp in Fairbury to build structures which included barracks, a mess hall, a bath house, a rec building, and a hospital for the young men between the ages of 17 to 23 1/2. This program gave these young men jobs that helped our farmlands heal after the dustbowls of the dirty '30s.

The campus lives of the young men were overseen by the Army. Their daily work was overseen by the Soil Erosion Service. They did conservation projects such as erosion control, terracing, and fairground development. The young men earned wages of $30 a month. If they had dependents, they sent home $15 per dependent.

This program was one of the New Deal programs enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In addition to providing conservation, these camps employed young men who couldn't find jobs. It gave them an opportunity to learn while they earned. They were taught good work habits, the program boosted morale with camaraderie, and kept young unemployed men out of trouble. They learned to repair motor vehicles, tractors, and bulldozers, how to work with electrical equipment, were offered training for cooks, classes in photography, blue print reading, drafting, typing and radio.

Some improvements to the fairgrounds done by the CCC at that time were: elevating and graveling the road from the tracks to the entrance of the grounds; grading and filling holes in all roads through the grounds, leveling the straightway in front of the grandstand, restringing fences, and building a horse barn that had burned the prior year. The young men of the Butler Camp (camp 761) specifically did soil conservation.

Over three years, the National office of the CCC reported camp boys to have planted 4,695,914 trees in gullies; constructed 34,295 gully check dams; seeded and sodded 797,486 square yards of ground.

It was estimated that 16,929 Nebraska men enrolled in the corps. Farmers at that time who wanted earth roads or terracing were to get in touch with the Court House Farm Project Supervisor, Mr. A.H. Rady, to fill out the required applications.

03/06/2025

The Butler County Health Foundation Dinner and Auction is on Saturday, March 8th. The proceeds from this event will be used to purchase Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Equipment for Butler County Health. Below is the auction booklet for this event. A special thanks to all of our donors!2025 Auction B...

02/15/2025

Join us for the Foundation Annual Benefit Dinner & Auction on Saturday, March 8th! To purchase tickets call Alyssa, Laura or Mary at 402-367-1200.

02/14/2025