Editing Kimball, Nebraska (section)

==History==
[[File:Nebraska - Kimball through Long Pine - NARA - 23942169 (cropped).jpg|thumb|left|Aerial view of Kimball in 1925]]
Kimball was originally called Antelopeville, and under the latter name was established ''circa'' 1870 when the [[Union Pacific Railroad]] was extended to that point.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=InM_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA123 | title=History of Hamilton and Clay Counties, Nebraska, Volume 1 | publisher=S.J. Clarke Publishing Company | author=Burr, George L. | year=1921 | pages=123}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/counties/kimball/kimball/ | title=Kimball, Kimball County | publisher=University of Nebraska | work=Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies | access-date=18 August 2014 | archive-date=August 19, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819090242/http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/counties/kimball/kimball/ | url-status=dead }}</ref>  It initially consisted of a telegraph and coal station with a siding and [[Section house (railway)|section house]].<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=59|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nbsUAAAAYAAJ&q=The%20Pacific%20tourist.%20J.R.%20Bowman's%20illustrated%20transcontinental%20guide%20of%20travel%20from%20the%20Atlantic%20to%20the%20Pacific%20Ocean&pg=PA59V|access-date=16 May 2018|oclc=752667534}}</ref> It was renamed in 1885 in honor of [[Thomas Lord Kimball]], a railroad official.<ref>{{cite book|title=Exploring Nebraska Highways: Trip Trivia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rjRdGsXE_joC&pg=PA58|year=2007|publisher=Exploring America's Highway|isbn=978-0-9744358-7-9|page=58}}</ref> Kimball was incorporated in 1888.<ref>{{cite book|last=Shumway|first=Grant Lee|title=History of Western Nebraska and Its People|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7RM1AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA329|year=1921|publisher=Western publishing & engraving Company|page=329}}</ref>