Hartington is a city in Cedar County, Nebraska, United States.

These include three brick structures on the National Register of Historic Places: the Prairie School Hartington City Hall and Auditorium (1921-1923), the Romanesque Revival Cedar County Courthouse (1890-1891), and the Colonial Revival Hartington Hotel (1917).

[8] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.94 square miles (2.43 km2), all land.

[10] At the 2010 census there were 1,554 people, 641 households, and 402 families living in the city.

There were 715 housing units at an average density of 760.6 per square mile (293.7/km2).

At the 2000 census there were 1,640 people, 670 households, and 416 families living in the city.

There were 738 housing units at an average density of 819.7 per square mile (316.5/km2).