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Wisner is a city in northwestern Cuming County, Nebraska, built beside the Elkhorn River.

Wisner was platted in 1871, just before the railroad was extended to the site, and was named for Samuel P. Wisner, an official of the Sioux City and Pacific Railroad.

The settlement was originally called Lakeview, after Kane's Lake, which lies just south of the Elkhorn River from the townsite.

Wisner is known as the livestock center of Nebraska: about 130,000 cattle are on feed around the city at any one time, spread across some 15 feedlots.

Louis Dinklage, a pioneer of commercial cattle feeding, started in Wisner with fewer than 30 head and by the 1960s was feeding about 65,000 cattle, making him the largest private cattle feeder in the United States; he entered the Cattle Feeders Hall of Fame in 2013.

The 2020 census counted 1,239 people in Wisner, up from 1,170 in 2010.

At the 2010 census, Wisner had 506 households, and the median resident was 44.6 years old.

Rail service to Wisner ended in 1982 after flooding damaged much of the track, and the rails themselves were torn out in 1985.

Dinklage Park, the former City Park, was renamed in 1982 for Louis and Abby Faye Dinklage, whose contributions built the park's heated, Olympic-size swimming pool that year.

River Park, purchased by the city in 1927 on the Elkhorn River, hosts ballfields, a rodeo arena, livestock show barns and the annual Thunder By The River tractor pull.