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==History== Lisco was laid out in 1909 when the [[Union Pacific Railroad]] was extended to that point.<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=PA263|year=1921|publisher=Western publishing & engraving Company|page=263}}</ref> The community was named after Reuben Lisco, a cattleman who owned about {{convert|40000|acre|ha}} of land in the area, including the land on which the town currently stands. Mr. Lisco later became the president of the Lisco State Bank.<ref>{{cite book | last = Fitzpatrick | first = Lilian Linder | title = Nebraska Place-Names | url = http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/englishunsllc/1/ | format = PDF | accessdate = 2012-08-21 | series = University of Nebraska Studies in Language, Literature, and Criticism, number 6 | year = 1925 | publisher = University of Nebraska Press | page = 66 }}</ref> In the [[2000 United States Census]], the community of Lisco was mistakenly called "Cisco" by the Census Bureau.<ref>[https://archive.today/20200210211132/http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/SAFFFacts?_event=&geo_id=16000US3109112&_geoContext=01000US%7C04000US31%7C16000US3109112&_street=&_county=Cisco&_cityTown=Cisco&_state=04000US31&_zip=&_lang=en&_sse=on&ActiveGeoDiv=geoSelect&_useEV=&pctxt=fph&pgsl=160&_submenuId=factsheet_1&ds_name=null&_ci_nbr=null&qr_name=null®=null:null&_keyword=&_industry=&show_2003_tab=&redirect=Y Census Bureau Fact Sheet, Cisco, Nebraska]</ref><ref name="censusmap">[http://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/general_ref/cousub_outline/cen2k_pgsz/ne_cosub.pdf Census 2000 map of Nebraska]</ref> The surrounding [[census county division]] (CCD) was still called Lisco.<ref name="censusmap" /> By 2005, the Census Bureau had realized its error, stating that "Lisco census designated place (CDP) is erroneously shown...with the name 'Cisco.'"<ref>[https://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/rd_2ktiger/err_rd2k.html Errata and User Notes for the Redistricting Census 2000 TIGER/Line files] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081006212528/http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/rd_2ktiger/err_rd2k.html |date=2008-10-06 }}, [[United States Census Bureau]], 2005-09-09. Accessed 2008-10-08.</ref>
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