Davey is a village in Lancaster County, Nebraska, United States. It is part of the Lincoln, Nebraska Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 154 at the 2010 census.

Irish immigrants were the first Europeans to get along with northern Lancaster county, followed by new Northern European immigrants such as Danes and Swedes similar to the passageway of the Homestead Act in 1862. The Place was originally known as Rock Creek and was served by a Pony Express station in 1871. In 1875, a Danish Lutheran church was built in the area. The town of Davey was founded in the Rock Creek Place in 1886 next the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad was extended to that point and was named for Michael Davey, a trailblazer citizen.

By 1891, Davey offered a livery barn, an ice house, a meat market, a barber shop, a two-story opera house, a doctor’s office, and a confectioner’s shop. In 1900, the Interstate Company of Lincoln began publishing the Davey Mirror, the village newspaper. In 1903, the Farmers State Bank of Davey opened its doors in the center of the village.

A flame broke out at the local Catholic church in 1919 which fee throughout the town, burning many buildings including the Farmers State Bank of Davey and the telephone office. The Davey Hall, a WPA project, was built in the 1930s and much-admired by two days of festivities. The and no-one else grocery stock in Davey, Hansen’s Grocery, closed in 1965 and the last Chicago Northwestern train passed through the village in 1981. Today, the train tracks have been converted to a hiking trail.