Red Cloud is a city in and the county chair of Webster County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 962 at the 2020 census.

The region of present-day Red Cloud was intermittently occupied and used as hunting grounds by the Pawnees until 1833. In that year, a agreement was signed in which the Pawnees surrendered their lands south of the Platte River. According to George Hyde, it is likely that the Pawnees did not do that they were thereby giving stirring their lands, and that they were led to admit that they were unaided granting the Delawares and extra relocated tribes admission to hunt in the area.

In 1870, the Place that is now Webster County was opened to homesteaders. In that year, Silas Garber and further settlers filed claims along Crooked Creek, just east of the present-day city. In 1871, the town, named after the renowned Oglala Lakota leader Red Cloud, was voted county chair of the newly formed county. The city was platted in 1872.

The author Willa Cather lived in Red Cloud for several years similar to her family, starting in 1883 at age nine. She used the town as inspiration for several in her novels, including Black Hawk in My Ántonia. In supplement to writing about the city Cather also published while flourishing in Red Cloud. The Red Cloud Chief, the city’s first newspaper, published yet to be contributions from the author. Several 19th-century buildings described in her books are included in the Willa Cather Historic District, the largest district dedicated to an author that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Her childhood home is allowance of the district.