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We would like to provide the residents of  West Point  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the West Point Home page. The West Point Home page provides as much information as possible on West Point. Knowing West Point’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within West Point’s Home page, you will also find West Point’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

West Point has a population of 3282. 52.5% of West Point’s inhabitants are Male, and 47.5 are female. 64.5% of West Point is married and 61.9% own their own home. The Average Home price is $124,446, and the average rent is $669. Household median income in West Point is $52,788, and the individual median income is $32,033. West Point’s Ethnic is the following: White(84.2%), Hispanic(21.8%), Other(8%), Multiple(7.6%), Asian(0.2%), Native(0.1%).


West Point was first founded in the spring of 1857, when Omaha businessmen formed the Nebraska Settlement Association in order to find suitable townsites in the Elkhorn Valley. Uriah, John, and Andrew Bruner (three brothers originally from Pennsylvania), and William Sexauer chose the present location on a bend along a river, which they called New Philadelphia.


The name was soon changed to West Point because it was the westernmost outpost along the valley.West Point became the county seat of Cuming County on October 12, 1858 after winning the election over the community of DeWitt. A total of 19 votes were split between the two towns with West Point obtaining 12 votes.


By the spring of 1859, over 4,000 Pawnee natives flooded the Elkhorn Valley during a hunting excursion and, displeased to find white settlers in the valley, burned several homesteads and killed livestock. The so-called Pawnee War ended near Battle Creek without a fight. West Point grew slowly at first, but with the coming of the railroad in 1870, it boomed to a population of over 700. By the mid-1970s, the future of railroad service came into question.


The Chicago & North Western tracks had been experiencing mildly declining freight traffic volumes. Revenue railroad service ultimately ended in spring of 1982, when flooding from the Elkhorn River damaged sections of the track. With freight traffic mildly declining & flooding damage, the C&NW promptly filed a request with the Interstate Commerce Commission to abandon the line.


Permission was granted a short time later, leaving the tracks with a dismal future. Plans were made to revive railroad service from the newly formed Fremont & Elkhorn Valley Railroad, who purchased the abandoned C&NW track. However, the costs were too high to revive railroad service, and the tracks were removed in 1988.On August 26, 2019, the DHHS announced that the city's water was unsafe to drink after a year of complaints from citizens of the town.


The maximum safe level of manganese for infants had been exceeded by over 700 micrograms per mL.


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