Crowell, Nebraska

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| name = Crowell, Nebraska

| settlement_type = Unincorporated Community

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| subdivision_type = Country

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| subdivision_type1 = State

| subdivision_type2 = County

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| subdivision_name2 = Dodge

| established_title = Founded

| established_date = 1883

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Crowell is an unincorporated community in Dodge County, Nebraska, United States.{{GNIS|828491}}

History

Crowell was laid out in 1883.{{cite book|author1=William Henry Buss|author2=Thomas T. Osterman|title=History of Dodge and Washington Counties, Nebraska, and Their People|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofdodgewa01buss|year=1921|publisher=American Historical Society|page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofdodgewa01buss/page/266 266]}} It was either named for the proprietor of a local grain elevator{{cite book|author=Federal Writers' Project|author-link=Federal Writers' Project|title=Origin of Nebraska place names|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3625056;view=1up;seq=15|year=1938|publisher=Works Progress Administration|location=Lincoln, NE|page=9}} or for Prince S. Crowell, a railroad official.{{cite book|last=Company|first=Chicago and North Western Railway|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=PA61|year=1908|page=61}}

References

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Category:Unincorporated communities in Dodge County, Nebraska

Category:Unincorporated communities in Nebraska