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Three years after the city was founded in 1854, on March 18, 1857 the City of Omaha built a jail and courthouse in an area known as Washington Square. It bounded by 15th, 16th, Douglas and Farnam streets. The original courthouse in Douglas County, with a council room and mayor's court room, several offices and jail cells, was opened January 4 ...
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 area.
Douglas County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population is 584,526. It is the state's most populous county, home to just under 30% of Nebraska's residents. Its county seat is Omaha, [1] the state's most populous city.
The plans for this road, named the Lincoln Highway, went through Omaha and across the entire state of Nebraska. On December 12, 1914, the first charter meeting of the American Association of State Highway Officials (AASHO) met in Washington, D.C. to form an association of state highway officials and draft a federal aid road bill. The bill ...
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 ]
Sign on N-92 as it enters the state from Wyoming Scotts Bluff National Monument. The road is the Oregon Trail, a former alignment of N-92 Chimney Rock, a landmark on N-92. N-92 begins at the Wyoming border west of Lyman and after a brief turn south, heads east passing around the north side of Scotts Bluff National Monument, crosses the North Platte River for the first of three times, and ...
N-133 begins at a signal-controlled intersection with US 6 (Grand Army of the Republic/West Dodge Road) and North 90th Street in Omaha in Douglas County. (From the intersection US 6 heads east toward Interstate 480/U.S. Route 75 and Downtown Omaha and then on to Council Bluffs, Oakland, and Atlantic in Iowa.
The current Mayor of Omaha is Jean Stothert, a member of the Republican Party.The City Clerk is Dan Esch, a member of the Democratic Party and members of the City Council are Pete Festerson, Council President from District 1; Juanita Johnson from 2; Danny Begley from 3; Ron Hug from 4; Don Rowe from 5; Brinker Harding from 6 and; Aimee Melton, [3] Council Vice President from 7.