According tohttp://www.ukans.edu/carrie/kancoll/andreas_ne/saunders/saunders-p8.html#clearcreek on 3 MAY 2001:
"WILLIAM A. KNAPP, blacksmith, Clear Creek, came to Nebraska in 1867 andthat year went to Cheyenne and engaged to work for the U. P. R. R. Co.,and in 1868 went to work for the Government at Fort Kearney where heremained but a short time and then came to Saunders County and took up ahomestead in Marble Precinct, three miles south of Clear Creek. He soonafterward started a blacksmith shop on his farm, which he continued torun up to 1879. Then started a shop at Clear Creek which he now runs inconnection with his farm. Was born in Colesville, Boone Co., N. Y., June11, 1837. Enlisted in the war of the Rebellion August 13, 1861, in theFirst Pennsylvania Rifles, Company I, generally known as the BucktailRegiment, and served three years. Was married in Pennsylvania in 1865 toMiss Elizabeth A. Fisk. They have seven children."
The above is from "History of the State of Nebraska", first published in1882 by The Western Historical Company, A. T. Andreas, Proprietor,Chicago, IL.
Apparently Yutan, NE, was originally called Clear Creek.