Editing Maskell, Nebraska (section)

==History==
Maskell was [[plat]]ted in 1907 when the [[Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway]] was extended to that point.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/counties/dixon/maskell/ | title=Maskell, Dixon County | publisher=University of Nebraska | work=Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies | accessdate=August 4, 2014}}</ref> There are two conflicting resources on how Maskell was named. In one source, Maskell was named for John Maskell, a pioneer settler.<ref>{{cite book|author=Chicago and North Western Railway Company|title=A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OspBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA182|year=1908|page=182}}</ref> According to another, it was named after A. H. Maskell, an owner of the surrounding land and sheriff of Dixon County.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Fitzpatrick|first1=Lilian Linder|title=Nebraska Place-Names|publisher=University of Nebraska - Lincoln|year=1925|pages=54|url=http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=englishunsllc|accessdate=December 28, 2017}}</ref>