Lisco Nebraska

Unincorporated community · Garden County · Population 68 (2020 census) · ZIP 69148 · Founded 1909

About Lisco

Lisco is an unincorporated community and census place of 68 people (2020) on US 26 and NE 92 in western Garden County, at about 3,491 feet on the north side of the North Platte valley near the Morrill County line. It is about 29 road miles southeast of Bridgeport and 16 miles west-northwest of Oshkosh. Lisco has a post office, a branch of Points West Community Bank, a Catholic and a Presbyterian church, and the Riverview Lodge events center; the nearest hospital and schools are in Oshkosh. Lisco is on Mountain Time.

History

Reuben Lisco, born in Iowa in 1858, came to the Panhandle in 1881 as a cowboy on the Club Ranch, which became the Rush Creek Land and Stock Company; he was the first sheriff of Deuel County and later ran the company, whose ranch covered some 40,000 acres. When the Union Pacific branch reached this point in 1909, he laid out the town on his land, and the post office opened on July 26, 1909. He also headed the Lisco State Bank, now part of Points West Community Bank. The Rush Creek Ranch, founded by Thomas E. Wells in 1890 and still owned by the Wells family, remains the area’s largest employer. The Lisco State Aid Bridge over the North Platte, half a mile south, is on the National Register. In the 2000 census the Census Bureau listed the town as “Cisco”; the error was fixed by 2005.

Things to see

the Lisco State Aid Bridge, about half a mile south, on the National Register · Crescent Lake National Wildlife Refuge, about 22 miles northeast