Neligh
| Neligh, Nebraska | |
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| City | |
Neligh Mill, on the bank of the Elkhorn River in Neligh
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 Location of Neligh within Antelope County and Nebraska |
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| Coordinates: 42°7′48″N 98°1′45″W / 42.13000°N 98.02917°WCoordinates: 42°7′48″N 98°1′45″W / 42.13000°N 98.02917°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Nebraska |
| County | Antelope |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Joe Hartz |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1.11 sq mi (2.87 km2) |
| • Land | 1.10 sq mi (2.85 km2) |
| • Water | 0.01 sq mi (0.03 km2) |
| Elevation | 1,755 ft (535 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 1,599 |
| • Estimate (2016) | 1,527 |
| • Density | 1,400/sq mi (560/km2) |
| Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP code | 68756 |
| Area code(s) | 402 |
| FIPS code | 31-33775 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0831582 |
| Website | neligh.org |
Neligh /ˈniːliː/ NEE-lee is a city and county seat in Antelope County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 1,599 at the 2010 census.
In 1872, John D. Neligh and a few of his friends took a trip up the Elkhorn River from West Point, Nebraska. Neligh took note of the scenic landscape and thought it would be the ideal setting for a town and the county seat. He immediately left for Omaha to buy 520 acres for the town site. Misunderstanding the prime land he was selling, Omaha banker Herman Kountze sold the land required to develop Neligh. He was apparently not aware it would make the ideal county seat, which Neligh eventually became. The records were moved to Neligh on January 1, 1884. Neligh was platted in 1873 by John Neligh and others, and named for him.
In May 1877, the Ponca tribe was forced to leave their homeland on the Niobrara River and move to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma. The rigors of the journey and resettlement led to the death of one-third of the tribe's population. During the migration, an 18-month-old girl named White Buffalo Girl died near Neligh. Her father, Black Elk, asked the townspeople "to respect the grave of my child just as they do the graves of their own dead". She was buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery in Neligh, and her grave tended by the residents; in 1960, owing to the deterioration of the monument, the marker was set on a new foundation.
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