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is a city in Cass County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 1,103 at the 2000 census.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.9 square miles (2.3 km²), all of it land.
Weeping Water is best known for its limestone quarry. Every year, late in June, the town celebrates Limestone Day with a parade, fireworks and games.
The Indians named the stream running through Weeping Water NIGAHOE, meaning "water rustling", the sound of water running over the low falls. When the French came, they confused the NIGAHOE with another Indian word, NIGAHOAGE, meaning "water weeping" and gave the stream the French name L'EAU QUI PLEURE, meaning "water which weeps".
In the 1920s a poet composed "The Ballad of Weeping Water" giving a romantic flavor to the village's name. It tells of two tribes of Indians battling in the valley. A fight so bloody that braves from each side were slaughtered. The squaws and maidens of both tribes wept. For hours and hours they wept until their tears began to make trickling streams, which flowed into the valley where they formed a creek. The Indians named this creek “Weeping Water,” and it has been flowing ever since.