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Omaha's main airport, Eppley Airfield, is now in East Omaha, and the community has been the location of racial contention for several years. East Omaha was the first annexation to the City of Omaha in 1854. Far north Omaha includes everything north of Ames Avenue, west of Florence Boulevard, and east of 72nd Street.
The Lincoln Highway in Omaha, Nebraska, runs east–west from near North 183rd Street and West Dodge Road in Omaha, Nebraska, towards North 192nd Street outside of Elkhorn. This section of the Lincoln Highway , one of only 20 miles (32 km) that were paved with brick in Nebraska, [ 2 ] is one of the most well-preserved in the country. [ 3 ]
This is a list of streets in Omaha, Nebraska.Founded in 1854, today Omaha's population is over 400,000, making it the nation's 40th-largest city in the United States. There are more than 1.2 million residents within a 50-mile (80-km) radius of the city's center, forming the Greater Omaha
Logan Fontenelle, an interpreter for the Omaha Tribe when it ceded the land that became the city of Omaha to the U.S. government. Various Native American tribes had lived in the land that became Omaha since the 17th century, including the Omaha and Ponca, Dhegihan-Siouan language people who had originated in the lower Ohio River valley and migrated west by the early 17th century; Pawnee, Otoe ...
Dodge Street is the major street diverging from I-480 in Downtown Omaha.. Dodge Street was named for influential Iowa Senator Augustus C. Dodge.Dodge was a strong supporter of westward expansion beyond the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean who originally introduced the bill which led to the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Communities in West Omaha alphabetical order; Name Incorporated Location Notes Bennington: 1880s Boys Town: 1917 North 144th to 132nd Streets, West Dodge Road to Pacific Street. Chalco: 1888 156th Street to I-80, Harrison Street to the intersection of 144th Street and I-80. CDP, in Sarpy County. Elk City: 1884
Harrison is located on the American Great Plains. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.31 square miles (0.80 km 2), all land. [9] At 4,876 feet (1,486 m), Harrison has the highest elevation of any town in Nebraska, prompting it to bill itself as "Nebraska's Top Town". [10]
Military Avenue is a central thoroughfare located in Omaha, Nebraska.A segment of the road located at the junction of West 82nd and Fort Streets [2] was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. [3]