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Unincorporated community · Custer County · Founded 1892

About Weissert

Weissert is an unincorporated rural community in eastern Custer County, about 11 miles east-northeast of Broken Bow and 5 miles northwest of Westerville, on county roads. The Lone Tree Cemetery, also called the Weissert Cemetery, is about a mile south and half a mile east. Weissert is on Central Time.

History

A post office named Weissert was established in 1892. The Weissert School, District 17, was built in 1952 to serve the surrounding farm and ranch families.

Nearby towns

Westerville	about 5 mi southeast	County roads
Round Valley	about 8 mi north-northwest	County roads
Berwyn	about 9 mi south-southwest	County roads
Broken Bow	about 11 mi west-southwest	County roads
Comstock	about 12 mi east-northeast	County roads
Sargent	about 13 mi north-northeast	County roads and US 183
Ansley	about 13 mi south-southeast	County roads

Things to see

Westerville and its marker, about 5 miles southeast

Health care

Nearest hospital: Jennie M. Melham Memorial Medical Center, 145 Memorial Dr., Broken Bow, (308) 872-4100, about 11 mi

Sources: U.S. Census; Wikipedia; NEGenWeb Custer County (place names); Custer County Tourism; Custer County Historical Society; History Nebraska (markers); National Register listings; Nebraska Game and Parks; Nebraska DHHS hospital and clinic rosters; Nebraska 211; SchoolDigger; Nebraska Secretary of State; City of Broken Bow; Village of Callaway; VisitNebraska; NEBRASKAland; Geological Society of America abstracts; KRVN, KNOP, KOLN 10/11 and Custer County Chief reports. Distances marked "about" are straight-line estimates.