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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 .
The Ogallala Formation is a Miocene to early Pliocene geologic formation in the central High Plains of the western United States and the location of the Ogallala Aquifer. [1] In Nebraska and South Dakota it is also classified as the Ogallala Group . [ 2 ]
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).
The Dr. Burdette and Myrna Gainsforth House, at 1300 East A St. in Ogallala, Nebraska, is a ranch style house that was built in 1949.Also denoted as NeHBS no. KH00-096, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002; the listing included two contributing buildings and two contributing structures.
Pine Ridge is the site of several events that mark milestones in the history between the Sioux of the area and the U.S. government. Stronghold Table, a mesa in what is today the Oglala-administered portion of Badlands National Park, was the location of the last of the Ghost Dances.
Oglala National Grassland is home to some of the most striking badlands formations in Toadstool Geologic Park, [4] near Crawford, Nebraska and Whitney, Nebraska.. The Hudson-Meng Bison Kill, also located on the grassland, is an archaeological excavation in progress.
The Welsch Motor Court-Erin Plaza Motor Court was a historic complex of buildings at 311 E. 1st St. in Ogallala, Nebraska. It was also known as Plaza Inn and was denoted KH04-106 by the Nebraska State Historical Society. It was demolished sometime in 2012–13, and removed from the National Register.
The dam is 162 feet (49 m) tall, 3.1 miles (5.0 km) long, and 1,100 feet (340 m) wide at its base. On the east side of the dam is Lake Ogallala and on the south side is the Kingsley Hydroelectricity Plant. The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission and Central Nebraska Public Power and Irrigation District are also located in this area. Kingsley Dam ...