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A few of the early sheriffs were professional lawmen. Sheriff David Baker, for example, was a 20-year law enforcement officer, variously a city marshal in North Platte for ten years, Lincoln County sheriff from 1888 to 1893, and Union Pacific Railroad ('UP') detective.
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Nebraska.. According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 225 law enforcement agencies employing 3,765 sworn officers, about 211 for each 100,000 residents.
The Platte then flows ESE out of the county. [4] The county has a total area of 2,575 square miles (6,670 km 2), of which 2,564 square miles (6,640 km 2) is land and 11 square miles (28 km 2) (0.4%) is water. [5] It is the third-largest county in Nebraska by area. Most of Nebraska's 93 counties (the eastern 2/3, including Lincoln County ...
U.S. 34 and U.S. 281 then follow a divided highway north to Grand Island, intersecting Interstate 80 south of Grand Island near its crossing of the Platte River. At the southern end of Grand Island, U.S. 34 ends its overlap with U.S. 281 and turns east, overlapping the western segment of Nebraska Highway 2 .
I-80 has over 80 exits in Nebraska; [4] according to The New York Times there are several notable tourist attractions along Nebraska's section of I-80. [5] It is the only Interstate Highway to travel from one end of Nebraska to another, as the state has no major north–south Interstate route.
Officials with the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office say they have arrested two men trying to start a fire in the early hours of Friday morning at an area business in Harrisburg.
North Platte is a city in and the county seat of Lincoln County, Nebraska, United States. [4] It is located in the west-central part of the state, along Interstate 80 , at the confluence of the North and South Platte Rivers forming the Platte River .
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).