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Buffalo Bill Cody (1845–1917), iconic western figure; lived in Nebraska (born in Iowa Territory) while working as a scout for the 5th Cavalry; on July 17, 1876, at War Bonnet Creek, while dressed in his Wild West stage clothing, he killed and scalped Chief Yellow Hair (), claiming it a revenge for Custer; took up residence in Scout's Rest Ranch in 1886
416 North Jeffers Street 41°08′12″N 100°45′48″W / 41.1367°N 100.7632°W / 41.1367; -100.7632 ( North Platte US Post Office and Federal North Platte
North Platte is host to the annual Miss Nebraska pageant, an official preliminary for the Miss America Organization. [32] A independent professional baseball team, the North Platte 80s, began play in 2024 in the Pecos League. [33] North Platte was also the prior home the minor league baseball North Platte Indians of the Nebraska State League. [34]
Buffalo Bill Ranch State Historical Park, known as Scout's Rest Ranch, is a living history state park located west of North Platte, Nebraska.The ranch was established in 1878 with an initial purchase of 160 acres south of the Union Pacific tracks by William (Buffalo Bill) Cody.
Lincoln County is one of the three counties in the North Platte Micropolitan Statistical Area. In the Nebraska license plate system , Lincoln County is represented by the prefix 15 (it had the fifteenth-largest number of vehicles registered for a state county when the license plate system was established in 1922).
Scottsbluff was founded in 1899 across the North Platte River from its namesake, a bluff that is now protected by the National Park Service as Scotts Bluff National Monument. The monument was named after Hiram Scott (1805–1828), a fur trader with the Rocky Mountain Fur Company who was found dead in the vicinity on the return trip from a fur ...
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 ...
As of the census [9] of 2010, there were 78 people, 30 households, and 24 families residing in the village. The population density was 288.9 inhabitants per square mile (111.5/km 2).