Editing Elm Creek, Nebraska (section)

==History==
[[File:Nebraska - Benedict through Grant - NARA - 23942147 (cropped).jpg|250px|thumb|left|Elm Creek in 1925]]
Elm Creek was founded in 1866 with the arrival of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]] to Buffalo County.<ref name="OffSite">{{cite web|url=https://elmcreekne.com|title=Village of Elm Creek, Nebraska}}</ref> Prior the construction of a railway station in Elm Creek, the area was heavily timbered with [[Fraxinus|ash]], [[elm]], and [[Populus deltoides|cottonwood]] trees but they were almost all removed for use in building the railroad.<ref name=bowman>{{cite book|last1=Bowman|first1=J. R.|editor1-last=Shearer|editor1-first=Frederick E.|title=The Pacific tourist. J.R. Bowman's illustrated transcontinental guide of travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean|date=1882|publisher=J.R. Bowman|location=New York|page=34|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nbsUAAAAYAAJ&dq=The%20Pacific%20tourist.%20J.R.%20Bowman's%20illustrated%20transcontinental%20guide%20of%20travel%20from%20the%20Atlantic%20to%20the%20Pacific%20Ocean&pg=PA34v|access-date=May 15, 2018|oclc=752667534}}</ref> The village was incorporated in 1887.<ref name="OffSite" /> The construction spurred the development of the wood-frame business, but much of it was destroyed in a fire in 1906; stone was used afterwards to rebuild.<ref name="AAA">American Automobile Association (2007). ''TourBook: North Central (Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota)''. AAA Publishing, Heathrow, Florida, p.&nbsp;170.</ref> A contest for renaming the settlement, in hopes that the new name would bring prosperity, was held in 1912, but the prize was never awarded and the name remained unchanged.<ref name="AAA" />