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Chimney Rock is located 20 miles southeast of Scotts Bluff National Monument, on Nebraska Highway 92. [10] The Ethel and Christopher J. Abbot Visitor Center features museum exhibits and a video about pioneers and the migrations in the West, as well as a gift shop. [11] On March 1, 2006, the Nebraska State Quarter was released. The quarter ...
The Colorado Plateau is a physiographic and desert region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States. This plateau covers an area of 336,700 km 2 (130,000 mi 2 ) within western Colorado , northwestern New Mexico , southern and eastern Utah , northern Arizona , and a tiny fraction ...
"Old" Bayard was founded in the 1880s. [5] It was named after the city of Bayard, Iowa. [6] The first post office at Bayard was established in 1888. [7] The town of Bayard was picked up and moved to its present site in 1900 in order to be on the new Union Pacific Railroad line. [8] CCC Camp BR-61, part of the North Platte Project, was located ...
The Four Corners region is the red circle in this map. The Four Corners states are highlighted in orange. Four Corners is a region of the Southwestern United States consisting of the southwestern corner of Colorado, southeastern corner of Utah, northeastern corner of Arizona, and northwestern corner of New Mexico.
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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).
The High Plains ecology region is designated by 25 on this map. Childress County, Texas, June 1938.. The High Plains are a subregion of the Great Plains, mainly in the Western United States, but also partly in the Midwest states of Nebraska, Kansas, and South Dakota, generally encompassing the western part of the Great Plains before the region reaches the Rocky Mountains.
U.S. Highway 138 (US 138), commissioned in 1926, is an east–west U.S. Highway in Colorado and Nebraska that travels predominantly northeast to southwest, paralleling the South Platte River and Interstate 76 (I-76). Similarly to the spurs of the former US 66 and US 99, US 138 is an orphan route.