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Central Community College has a branch campus in Kearney. [41] University of Nebraska at Kearney (UNK) is located in the city. The campus is a 235-acre (0.95 km 2) residential campus with more than 37 buildings. It was founded in 1905 as Nebraska State Normal School at Kearney and became Nebraska State Teachers College in 1921.
Buffalo County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 50,084, [1] making it Nebraska's fifth-most populous county. Its county seat is Kearney. [2] The county was created in 1855 [3] and was organized in 1870.
The Great Platte River Road Archway Monument (also known as The Archway or Kearney Archway) is a monument on Interstate 80 located three miles (4.8 km) east of Kearney, Nebraska, United States. Opened in July 2000, it houses a historical experience that tells the story of Nebraska and the Platte River Valley in the development of America. The ...
Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) is the largest electric utility in the state of Nebraska, serving all or parts of 84 (of 93) counties. [1] It was formed on January 1, 1970, when Consumers Public Power District, Platte Valley Public Power and Irrigation District (PVPPID) and Nebraska Public Power System merged to become Nebraska Public Power District.
This is a list of telephone area codes in the state of Nebraska. 308: Western Nebraska, including Grand Island and Kearney. 402/531: Eastern Nebraska, including Omaha and Lincoln, overlaid in 2011 [1] Under the original North American Numbering Plan of 1947, area code 402 covered all of Nebraska. Area code 308 was split off in 1954, and ...
The South Platte River has been dammed about 20 times for water storage, drinking water and irrigation purposes in Colorado as it flows to its confluence with the North Platte River. The total number of dams in the South Platte drainage may exceed 1,000 as nearly all major streams have at least one dam on them. [7] The South Platte River serves ...
Augustus Caesar Dodge, U.S. Senator who supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act: 5 37,187: 534 sq mi (1,383 km 2) Douglas County: 055: Omaha: 1854: One of nine original counties: Stephen Arnold Douglas, national politician: 1 589,540: 331 sq mi (857 km 2) Dundy County: 057: Benkelman: 1873: Unorganized territory: Elmer Scipio Dundy, U.S. Circuit ...
Valley County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska.As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 4,059. [1] Its county seat is Ord. [2]In the Nebraska license plate system, Valley County is represented by the prefix 47 (it had the 47th-largest number of vehicles registered in the county when the license plate system was established in 1922).