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View from space of Omaha and Council Bluffs. Standard definitions for United States metropolitan areas were created in 1949; the first census which had metropolitan area data was the 1950 census. At that time, the Omaha–Council Bluffs metropolitan area comprised three counties: Douglas and Sarpy in Nebraska, and Pottawattamie in Iowa.
Pottawattamie County (/ ˌ p ɑː t ə ˈ w ɑː t əm iː /) is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa.At the 2020 census, the population was 93,667, [1] making it the tenth-most populous county in Iowa.
This segment is officially called Reichmuth Road in Douglas County and Bell Street in Fremont. Prior to July 1, 2003, US 275 followed a winding two-lane road between Council Bluffs and Glenwood, Iowa. The segment moved to a concurrency with U.S. Route 34 and Interstate 29 that day as part of a mass decommissioning of highways in Iowa.
Map of counties numbered as in the National Atlas of the United States. The Iowa Constitution of 1857, which is still in effect today, states that counties must have an area of at least 432 square miles (1,120 km 2), and no county may be reduced below that size by boundary changes. [6]
Fort Dodge is a city in and the county seat of Webster County, Iowa, United States, [2] along the Des Moines River. The population was 24,871 in the 2020 census, a decrease from 25,136 in 2000. [3] Fort Dodge is a major commercial center for North Central and Northwest Iowa. It is located on U.S. Routes 20 and 169.
The first Council Bluff (which is singular) was on the Nebraska side of the river at Fort Atkinson, about 20 miles (32 km) northwest of the city of Council Bluffs.It was named by Lewis and Clark for a bluff where they met the Otoe people on August 2, 1804.
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US 6 heads east along I-29 south on the western side of Council Bluffs, then it overlaps I-80 and continues due east. On the east side of Council Bluffs, I-80 and US 6 split. Near Oakland, the highway follows the north–south US 59 for two miles (3.2 km). Near Lewis, the road turns to the north-northeast until it reaches Atlantic.