Dunbar is a village in Otoe County, Nebraska, United States.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.23 square miles (0.60 km2), all land.

The racial makeup of the village was 97.05% White, 0.42% Native American, and 2.53% from two or more races.

Dunbar was a large freighting depot for goods traveling west out of Nebraska City.

By the 1880s, the town contained a grocery, general store, restaurant, boarding house, two hotels, two liveries, five churches, pharmacy, lumberyard, two banks, barbershop, two saloons, dentist, optometrist.

About 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Dunbar, the Delaware (named for the township) Cemetery was constructed.

The Nebraska City High School Band performed a concert and other festivities continued into the evening.

The three mile stretch through Dunbar was noted as the worst from Chicago to Denver On January 11, 1887, at 11:30 p.m., David Hoffman and James Bell derailed a passenger train 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of Dunbar.

Hoffman was charged with first degree murder and sent to the gallows, while Bell was sentenced to ten years of hard labor in exchange for his testimony.

On Friday, July 22, 1887, at 10:32, David Hoffman became the first person legally executed in Otoe County.