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Council Bluffs is a city in and the county seat of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States. [9] The population was 62,799 at the 2020 census, [6] making it the state's tenth most populous city, and the most populous city in Southwest Iowa.
At the 2020 census, the population was 93,667, [1] making it the tenth-most populous county in Iowa. The county takes its name from the Potawatomi Native American tribe. The county seat is Council Bluffs. [2] [3] Pottawattamie County is included in the Omaha–Council Bluffs, NE–IA Metropolitan Statistical Area. [4]
View from space of Omaha and Council Bluffs. Standard definitions for United States metropolitan areas were created in 1949; the first census which had metropolitan area data was the 1950 census. At that time, the Omaha–Council Bluffs metropolitan area comprised three counties: Douglas and Sarpy in Nebraska, and Pottawattamie in Iowa.
Council Bluffs, until 1852, was Kanesville—the historic starting point of the Mormon Trail and eventual northernmost anchor town of the other emigrant trails. It is the county seat of Pottawattamie County, [ 14 ] and is on the east bank of the Missouri River across from what is now the much larger city of Omaha, Nebraska .
Map of the United States with Iowa highlighted. Iowa is a state located in the Midwestern United States that is divided into 99 counties and contains 62 census-designated places (CDPs). [1] All population data is based on the 2010 census.
Harrison County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census, the population was 14,582. [1] The county seat is Logan. [2] The county was formed in 1851. [3] It was named for the ninth US President William Henry Harrison. [4] Harrison County is included in the Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA Metropolitan Statistical Area. [5]
The U.S. State of Iowa currently has 31 statistical areas that have been delineated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated seven combined statistical areas, nine metropolitan statistical areas, and 15 micropolitan statistical areas in Iowa. [1]
The district was significantly altered after the 1990 census, when it was reconfigured to take in the southwest quadrant of the state from Des Moines to Council Bluffs. Smith was reelected in 1992, but defeated in 1994 by Republican Greg Ganske. The 2001 remap made the 4th district a north-central Iowa district.