Map of Elm Creek village, Nebraska

Elm Creek is a village in Buffalo County, Nebraska, United States. It is part of the Kearney, Nebraska Micropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 979 at the 2020 census.

Elm Creek village overview:
Name:	Elm Creek village
LSAD Code:	47
LSAD Description:	village (suffix)
State:	Nebraska
County:	Buffalo County
Elevation:	2,266 ft (691 m)
Total Area:	0.69 sq mi (1.80 km²)
Land Area:	0.69 sq mi (1.80 km²)
Water Area:	0.00 sq mi (0.00 km²)
Total Population:	979
Population Density:	1,408.63/sq mi (543.54/km²)
ZIP code:	68836
Area code:	308
FIPS code:	3115360
GNISfeature ID:	0829073

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History

Elm Creek was founded in 1866 with the arrival of the Union Pacific Railroad to Buffalo County. Prior the construction of a railway station in Elm Creek, the area was heavily timbered with ash, elm, and cottonwood trees but they were almost all removed for use in building the railroad. The village was incorporated in 1887. The construction spurred the development of the wood-frame business, but much of it was destroyed in a fire in 1906; stone was used afterwards to rebuild. A contest for renaming the settlement, in hopes that the new name would bring prosperity, was held in 1912, but the prize was never awarded and the name remained unchanged.