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Covering 4,407 square miles (11,410 km 2) and with a population of 967,604 (2020), [2] the Omaha metropolitan area is the most populous in both Nebraska and Iowa (although the Des Moines–West Des Moines MSA is the largest MSA centered entirely in Iowa), and is the 58th most populous MSA in the United States.
Omaha (/ ˈ oʊ m ə h ɑː / OH-mə-hah) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County. [6] It is located in the Midwestern United States along the Missouri River, about 10 mi (15 km) north of the mouth of the Platte River.
Nebraska has 93 counties.They are listed below by name, FIPS code and license plate prefix. Nebraska's postal abbreviation is NE and its FIPS state code is 31.. When many counties were formed, the bills establishing them did not state the honoree's full name; thus the namesakes of several counties, including Brown, Deuel, Dixon, and possibly Harlan, are known only by their surnames.
The village was established as a water-station on the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway and named for early settler William Stewart Craig, who in the early 1880s donated the land on which the town was built. [5] Craig was laid out in 1881. [6]
Scottsbluff is a city in Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska, United States, in the Great Plains region. The population was 14,436 at the 2020 census.Scottsbluff is the largest city in the Nebraska Panhandle, and the 13th-most-populous city in Nebraska.
The Monitor – Omaha (1915–1929) Nebraska Advertiser – Brownville (1856–1899) [15] The Nebraska Advertiser – Nemaha City (1899–1908) Nebraska Palladium – Bellevue (1854–1855) [16] Nebraska State Journal – Lincoln (1867–1951) The New Era – Omaha (1921–1926) The Norfolk Weekly News-Journal – Norfolk (1900–1912) [17]
Omaha's economy has grown dramatically since the early 1990s. The city has five companies that rank in the Fortune 500 . It also is the smallest city to have two major research hospitals, the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Creighton University Medical Center.
Located in the formerly affluent and prosperous mixed-use neighborhood west of downtown Omaha, the Drake Court Apartments and the Dartmore Apartments were built between 1916-1921 by William B. Drake, a prolific builder who held more than four million dollars' worth of apartments throughout Omaha in 1925.