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Sign on N-92 as it enters the state from Wyoming Scotts Bluff National Monument. The road is the Oregon Trail, a former alignment of N-92 Chimney Rock, a landmark on N-92. N-92 begins at the Wyoming border west of Lyman and after a brief turn south, heads east passing around the north side of Scotts Bluff National Monument, crosses the North Platte River for the first of three times, and ...
Scottsbluff was founded in 1899 across the North Platte River from its namesake, a bluff that is now protected by the National Park Service as Scotts Bluff National Monument. The monument was named after Hiram Scott (1805–1828), a fur trader with the Rocky Mountain Fur Company who was found dead in the vicinity on the return trip from a fur ...
The U.S. state of Nebraska is divided into 93 counties, 25 of which are divided into a total of 460 townships. [1] 63 are divided into precincts where there is no township government.
A little to the north, N-71 and N-92 intersect with US 26, and run concurrently to the northwest along it, passing through Scottsbluff. [1] [2] At the north side of Scottsbluff, N-71 splits off to the north again. The highway continues north into the Nebraska Sandhills, turning to the northeast and east where it intersects with N-2 west of ...
Scotts Bluff National Monument is located west of the City of Gering in western Nebraska, United States. This National Park Service site protects over 3,000 acres of historic overland trail remnants, mixed-grass prairie, rugged badlands, towering bluffs and riparian area along the North Platte River .
Scotts Bluff: Gering: A bluff over the North Platte River, now within Scotts Bluff National Monument. Mitchell Pass: Gering A gap in the Wildcat Hills used by travelers on the Emigrant Trail after 1851 after improvement by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, now within Scotts Bluff National Monument. Pierre D. Papin Grave: Gering
Scotts Bluff County is a county on the western border of the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 36,084. [1] Its county seat is Gering, [2] and its largest city is Scottsbluff. Scotts Bluff County is included in the Scottsbluff, NE Micropolitan Statistical Area.
The Omaha metropolitan area, officially known as the Omaha, NE–IA, Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), is an urbanized, bi-state metro region in Nebraska and Iowa in the American Midwest, centered on the city of Omaha, Nebraska.