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Ogallala is a city in and the county seat of Keith County, Nebraska, United States. [3] The population was 4,878 at the 2020 census , up from 4,737 at the 2010 census . In the days of the Nebraska Territory , the city was a stop on the Pony Express and later along the transcontinental railroad .
Lake McConaughy (known locally and affectionately as Lake Mac) is a reservoir on the North Platte River.It is located 9 miles (14 km) north of Ogallala, Nebraska, United States, near U.S. Highway 26 and Nebraska Highway 61.
Keith County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska.As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 8,335. [1] Its county seat is Ogallala. [2]In the Nebraska license plate system, Keith County is represented by the prefix 68 (it had the sixty-eighth-largest number of vehicles registered in the county when the license plate system was established in 1922).
U.S. Highway 26 (US-26) is an east–west highway in western Nebraska.It enters the state from Wyoming just west of Henry.The eastern terminus of US-26 is in Ogallala at an interchange with Interstate 80 (I-80).
English: Digital map of the saturated thickness of the High Plains aquifer in parts of Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming, 1996-97. Produced from GIS data produced by the USGS and published in Open File Report 00-300 (USGS OFR 00-300). Researchers: Fischer, Brian C.; Kollasch, Keith M.; McGuire, Virginia L.
Nebraska has 93 counties.They are listed below by name, FIPS code and license plate prefix. Nebraska's postal abbreviation is NE and its FIPS state code is 31.. When many counties were formed, the bills establishing them did not state the honoree's full name; thus the namesakes of several counties, including Brown, Deuel, Dixon, and possibly Harlan, are known only by their surnames.
The largest city US 26 runs through in Nebraska is Scottsbluff, which is just 22 miles (35 km) from the Wyoming border. US 26 also goes past Chimney Rock National Historic Site. US 26 intersects with US 385 in Bridgeport and then continues to its eastern terminus in Ogallala, Nebraska at I-80. All told, there are 150.79 miles (242.67 km) of US ...
The Ogallala Aquifer (oh-gə-LAH-lə) is a shallow water table aquifer surrounded by sand, silt, clay, and gravel located beneath the Great Plains in the United States. As one of the world's largest aquifers, it underlies an area of approximately 174,000 sq mi (450,000 km 2) in portions of eight states (South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas). [1]