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Salt Creek (Pawnee: Káʾit Kiicuʾ [3]) is a tributary of the Platte River, located in Saunders, Cass, and Lancaster counties in southeast Nebraska. It is approximately 44.38 miles (71.42 km) in length. [2] Salt Creek begins in southern Lancaster county and flows north to connect to the Platte River at Mahoney State Park in Ashland. [4]
The Salt Valley Lakes is a system of more than twenty lakes in Lancaster County, Nebraska. Many of the lakes are state recreation areas or wildlife areas. All of the lakes are within twenty-five miles of Lincoln, Nebraska. [1] "These areas around Lincoln cover 15,039 total acres, with 4,438 acres of water." [2]
In 1866, the southern portion of the land that would become Wilderness Park supported a corn mill situated on the Salt Creek. Shortly thereafter, a settler named Phillip Cooper dammed the Salt Creek to create a pond for the purpose of making ice in the winter. In 1873, Cooper dug a cave in the area to store the ice during the summer.
Aerial view of Lake McConaughy from the south. The lake, formed by Kingsley Dam, is a man-made body of water that is 22 miles (35 km) long, 4 miles (6.4 km) wide at its largest point, and 142 feet (43 m) deep near the dam (at full capacity) – it was constructed between 1936 and 1941 and is fed by the North Platte River. [2]
Branched Oak State Recreation Area (SRA) is a Nebraska state recreation area located 2.5 miles north of Malcolm, Nebraska (northwest of Lincoln) in Lancaster County. The lake is the largest of the Salt Valley Lakes with 1,800 acres (7 km 2 ) of water in a 5,595-acre (23 km 2 ) park.
Nebraska Game and Parks Commission Merritt Dam is a dam in Cherry County, Nebraska , southwest of Valentine , in the north-central part of the state. The 126-foot (38 m) earthen dam impounds the Snake River as it flows along the southern edge of the Samuel R. McKelvie National Forest in the Sandhills .
Boyer Chute National Wildlife Refuge, created in 1992, is a National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) located along the banks of the Missouri River in the U.S. state of Nebraska. [2] [3] The 4,040-acre (1,630 ha) refuge preserves an area that had been cultivated and neglected before the early 1990s. [4]
KZTL (93.5 FM) is a radio station licensed to Paxton, Nebraska, United States. The station airs the Big D & Bubba Morning Show; Farm News nearly every hour during the weekday and plays exclusively pop and bro country. The station serves the North Platte and Ogallala, Nebraska area in western Nebraska.