Lamar was a village in Chase County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 23 at the 2010 census. On November 5, 2024, the Village of Lamar voted to unincorporate. Lamar was laid out at its current site in 1887 when the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad was extended to that point. It was named for Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II, a fo…Lamar was a village in Chase County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 23 at the 2010 census. On November 5, 2024, the Village of Lamar voted to unincorporate. Lamar was laid out at its current site in 1887 when the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad was extended to that point. It was named for Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II, a former Confederate soldier and diplomat who wrote the Mississippi Ordinance of Secession and who served as United States Secretary of the Interior in the Grover Cleveland administration.