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Columbus is the county seat of Platte County, Nebraska, situated at the confluence of the Loup and Platte rivers roughly 85 miles (137 km) west-northwest of Omaha and 75 miles (121 km) northwest of Lincoln by road, near the county's southern edge.
Its county seat is Columbus. [2] The county was created in 1855. [3] [4] Platte County comprises the Columbus, NE Micropolitan Statistical Area. In the Nebraska license plate system, Platte County is represented by the prefix 10 (it had the 10th-largest number of vehicles registered in the state when the license plate system was established in ...
Location of Platte County in Nebraska. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Platte County, Nebraska. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Platte County, Nebraska, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...
Columbus Township is one of eighteen townships in Platte County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 3,320 at the 2020 census . A 2021 estimate placed the township's population at 3,276.
The Platte County Courthouse is a historic three-story building in Columbus, Nebraska, and the courthouse of Platte County, Nebraska. It is the second courthouse for Platte County; the first one was built in 1868–1870. [2] The current courthouse was built in 1920–1922, and designed in the Classical Revival style by architect Charles ...
Columbus quickly outgrew Williams High. A new facility was built in 1898 for approximately $24,000. The building was called one of the "finest public schools to date" in Nebraska. An addition was added in 1904, and it was used as the high school until 1925 when it became Columbus Junior High School. The building was demolished in the late 1950s.
Walter Dietrich Behlen (October 16, 1905 – July 26, 1994) was born on a small farm near Columbus, Nebraska. [1] He was the second of nine children born to Fred and Ella Behlen. His high school education was interrupted by illness, but he returned to school at age 20, and received his diploma at age 23.
Cozad, Nebraska: ca. 1849 Commercial Pony Express station, was moved a small distance in 1938 Didier Cabin: Brownville, Nebraska: ca. 1854 Residence Arbor Lodge: Nebraska City, Nebraska: ca. 1855 Residence Built for the founder of Arbor Day, Julius Sterling Morton: Mayhew Cabin: Nebraska City, Nebraska: ca. 1855 Residence One of the oldest ...