Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Cedar Creek, NE

Cedar Creek is an incorporated village in Cass County, Nebraska, and its motto is "The Land of Lakes."

The town was platted in 1865 by Swiss immigrant John Inhelder, who had set aside 40 acres for a town he first called Inhelder Station, together with George and Isaac Sayles.

The Post Office Department gave the settlement its lasting name, Cedar Creek, on March 20, 1872, after the cedar-lined creek that flows past the town site into the Platte River.

Cedar Creek grew slowly until the railroad was built through the settlement in 1870, and its early business district included two banks, a hotel, a lumberyard, and a dance hall.

Nearly half of Cedar Creek is water: of the village's 1.09 square miles, 0.52 square miles are water.

In 1969 the five private lakes north of the railroad tracks were incorporated into the village, transforming Cedar Creek into a lake resort community in the Platte River valley.

The village reports roughly 1,000 summer residents around its lakes, compared with a year-round population of 465 at the 2020 census.

Cedar Creek first appeared in the federal census in 1970 with just 119 residents, then more than doubled to 311 by 1980.

At the 2010 census there were 390 people in 170 households in Cedar Creek, and the 2020 census counted 465 people, a jump of about 19 percent.

In 1983 the U.S. Census Bureau ranked Cedar Creek as the third-richest town in Nebraska based on median income figures.