Cozad is a city in Dawson County, Nebraska, United States.

The town is on the Great Plains of central Nebraska, along the Union Pacific Railroad and U.S. Route 30, just north of the Platte River.

[3] He purchased 40,000 acres of land from the Union Pacific Railroad and laid out the future town.

[5][6] Cozad also founded Cozaddale, Ohio, a small, unincorporated village 25 miles northeast of Cincinnati.

The Hendee Hotel, today the main building of the Robert Henri Museum, and Allen's Opera House are also NRHP-listed.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.62 square miles (6.79 km2), all land.

[8] Cozad is part of the Lexington, Nebraska Micropolitan Statistical Area.

At the 2010 census there were 3,977 people in 1,656 households, including 1,058 families, in the city.

The city also has a seven-member police department with centralized dispatch out of the county sheriff's office in Lexington.