In the extreme southwest corner of the county, thirty three miles from Kimball, rises the highest point in Nebraska. This site, 5,424 feet above sea level, looks more like a rise in a pasture than the... The original marker designating the southwestern corner of nebraska and the southeastern corner of Wyoming where they meet the Colorado line was erected on august 17, 1869 by Oliver N. Chafee. The marker had only "Colorado" (then a territory)
Kimball, NE LandmarksThe Kimball County Irrigation District Board held its first organizational meeting in November 1909
Kimball, NE Structural LandmarksThe Stone Building is a two-story structure built in 1893-94 of rough-cut, locally quarried limestone. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Kimball, NE Historic BuildingsIn 1962, Kimball marked its place in history when construction began on a vast complex of Minuteman Missile silos. Kimball is the center of the largest complex of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles in the world, with about 200 Minuteman III ICBMs in silos in the tri-state area. In 1968
Kimball, NE MonumentsThe first and greatest robbery of a Union Pacific Train took place near Big Springs on the night of September 18, 1877. The l...