Schuyler is a city in Colfax County, Nebraska, United States.

[3] The city (as well as the county) is named after former Vice President of the United States, Schuyler Colfax.

[5] The 2020 United States census[8] counted 6,547 people, 1,831 households, and 1,312 families in Schuyler.

Schuyler's single largest employer is the Cargill beef processing plant, with approximately 2,000 employees.

[12] In 1866, the Union Pacific Railroad reached present-day Schuyler, at the time known as Shell Creek Station.

[13] In 1870, the Union Pacific chose the town as the point at which Texas cattle being driven north would be loaded onto trains.

[14] The city's early residents were Czech, Irish, and German settlers.

Settlement was enabled by Schuyler's geographic position, which caused the community to be associated with a number of historic overland transportation routes, including: Beginning in the late 1980s, reductions in wages at the Cargill beef processing plant led to a change in Schuyler's demographic makeup.

By 2017, an estimated 60% of the population was Latino, and immigrants from other parts of the world, including Somalia and Thailand, had also moved to the city.

[15] In December 2020, the Schuyler City Council voted to reject the formation of a board of health, which would have potentially resulted in a mask mandate.

[16] In January 2021, the city council voted to establish a board of health and appointed members, after two previous attempts failed.

In March 2021, law enforcement sent a letter to Schuyler Community Schools complaining about an incident on February 24, 2021 involving a student.

The monks' apostolate has expanded to providing retreats at the recently constructed Saint Benedict Center, four miles north of Schuyler.

[19] The Oak Ballroom, completed by the Works Progress Administration in 1937 and now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was built using dozens of native oak trees hauled to the building site from the nearby Platte River using horses and wagons.