Editing Colfax County, Nebraska (section)

==History==
Colfax County was established by the Nebraska legislature in 1869, as part of the division of [[Platte County, Nebraska|Platte County]] into three parts. The new county was named for [[Schuyler Colfax]], then the vice-president of the United States. The site of Shell Creek Station on the [[Union Pacific Railroad]] was chosen as the county seat, and renamed [[Schuyler, Nebraska|Schuyler]] also after Colfax.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bowman|first1=J. R.|editor1-last=Shearer|editor1-first=Frederick E.|title=The Pacific tourist. J.R. Bowman's illustrated transcontinental guide of travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean|date=1882|publisher=J.R. Bowman|location=New York|page=26|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nbsUAAAAYAAJ&q=The%20Pacific%20tourist.%20J.R.%20Bowman's%20illustrated%20transcontinental%20guide%20of%20travel%20from%20the%20Atlantic%20to%20the%20Pacific%20Ocean&pg=PA26|access-date=May 9, 2018|oclc=752667534}}</ref> Schuyler was incorporated in 1870, and the county's first courthouse was constructed in 1872.<ref>{{cite web|title=Colfax County History|url=http://www.colfaxne.com/webpages/about/history.html|website=www.colfaxne.com|access-date=December 8, 2017}}</ref><ref>Griepentrog, Harold.  [http://www.casde.unl.edu/history/counties/colfax/schuyler/ "Schuyler: Colfax County".]</ref>

Colfax County in May 2020 had the sixth-highest per capita [[Coronavirus disease 2019|COVID-19]] infection rate of any American county. About one of every 23 residents has tested positive, with 467 cases.<ref>See [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html "Coronavirus in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count" ''The New York Times'' May 15, 2020.]</ref> As of October 2020, one in every 13 residents has tested positive, with 798 cases.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Nebraska Covid Map and Case Count|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/nebraska-coronavirus-cases.html|access-date=October 4, 2020|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>