Preston is a village in Richardson County in Southeastern Nebraska, United States. It is located within the Sac and Fox Reservation. The population was 19 at the 2020 census.

The Sac Post Office, established in 1874, was named for the Sac and Fox Indian tribes that conscious in this area. The offspring of dirty marriages (primarily progeny of into the future French trappers and adventurers) were unmodified land on the Half-Breed Tract. Some of their descendants nevertheless live there, while others sold their estate and moved on.

Preston was platted in 1878 past the Atchison & Nebraska Railroad was lengthy to that point. In February 1880 Philip R. Shelly, the town’s founder, built a heap and applied for a make known office. However, the postal authorities rejected the proposed proclaim of “Blufton”, since there was marginal one in Sherman County. James Eatough, who worked for Shelly, had come from Preston, England, so he suggested that name. On June 23, 1881, “Preston” was in style by both read out office and railroad. The town was next platted on a sum of nearly 40 acres in 1881 by Shelly from a narrowing running along the railroad tracks, where a siding was available, to the south. An elevator and a depot were built along the tracks for commerce and travelers. A. D. McAlpine, a telegraph operator from Canada, was the first railroad station agent.

Shelly was the first postmaster. He built one of the general stores and a drugstore, ran the saloon, and owned a livery stable. In addition, he bought and sold cattle and hogs, shipping them to markets in St. Joseph (MO), Kansas City (KS), and Chicago (IL). On Monday and Tuesday nights, the rail yards were perky as men loaded two or three carloads of livestock. The town had a bank, three general stores, two barber shops, two drug stores, two livery stables, two blacksmiths, and two hotels. One of the two harness shops employed six girls to make fly nets for horses.