Editing Cuming County, Nebraska (section)

==History==
Cuming County was formed in 1855 and organized in 1857.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=englishunsllc|title=Nebraska Place-Names|last=Fitzpatrick|first=Lilian Linder|publisher=University of Nebraska Studies in Language, Literature, and Criticism|location=Lincoln|date=1925|page=44|access-date=December 18, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nebraskahistory.org/histpres/reports/Cuming%20County%20report.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061116020003/http://www.nebraskahistory.org/histpres/reports/Cuming%20County%20report.pdf|url-status=usurped|archive-date=November 16, 2006|title=Cuming County Nebraska Historic Buildings Survey|publisher=Nebraska State Historical Society|date=July 2000|access-date=December 18, 2014}}</ref> It was named for [[Thomas B. Cuming]], the first secretary (and twice Acting Governor) of the newly created Nebraska Territory (1854–1858).<ref>{{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ|title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States|publisher=Govt. Print. Off.|author=Gannett, Henry|year=1905|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n96 97]}}</ref>

The courthouse dates from the 1950s.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pxV6kO7k8QUC&pg=PA18|title=Cuming County|publisher=Arcadia Pub.|author=Topp, LaRayne M.|year=2013|page=18|isbn=9780738590707}}</ref>

On August 26, 2019, the [[United States Department of Health and Human Services|DHHS]] announced that [[West Point, NE|West Point'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.<ref>{{cite web|author=Omaha.com|url=https://www.omaha.com/livewellnebraska/bottled-or-filtered-water-recommended-after-high-manganese-levels-found/article_661c45e7-8f69-58e1-a4f4-327f1e5662ac.html|title=Bottled or filtered water recommended after high manganese levels found in West Point water | access-date=August 29, 2019}}</ref>