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Columbus Township is one of eighteen townships in Platte County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 3,320 at the 2020 census . A 2021 estimate placed the township's population at 3,276.
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 districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
Local legend says that Buffalo Bill paid his bill at Glur's Tavern in May 1883 with a $1,000 bill after a funeral in Columbus for Major Frank North. [3] North was the former leader of the Pawnee Indian Scouts and a close friend of Buffalo Bill's who managed the Native American participants in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. The showman's ...
Its county seat is Columbus. [2] The county was created in 1855. [3] [4] Platte County comprises the Columbus, NE Micropolitan Statistical Area. In the Nebraska license plate system, Platte County is represented by the prefix 10 (it had the 10th-largest number of vehicles registered in the state when the license plate system was established in ...
His son, Jack Van Berg, also went on to racing horse fame. Van Berg Stables was headquartered in Columbus, NE at the location of the Van Berg Sales Pavilion. Jack Van Berg John Charles "Jack" Van Berg, (June 7, 1936 in Columbus, Nebraska – December 27, 2017) was an American Hall of Fame horse trainer. Born into a horse racing family, his ...
The Platte County Courthouse is a historic three-story building in Columbus, Nebraska, and the courthouse of Platte County, Nebraska. It is the second courthouse for Platte County; the first one was built in 1868–1870. [2] The current courthouse was built in 1920–1922, and designed in the Classical Revival style by architect Charles ...
A 17-year-old boy is dead after a police officer shot him during a welfare check in Nebraska, officials said. The shooting happened Tuesday afternoon as officers with the Columbus Police ...
The Frederick L. and L. Frederick Gottschalk Houses are two historic houses in Columbus, Nebraska. The log house was built by Frederick Gottschalk and his wife, née Margaretha Loy Deuck, in 1857 on property they homesteaded. [2] Gottschalk was an immigrant from Germany, and a co-founder of Columbus. [2]