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The city was named for Lieutenant Lancaster Lupton, who built a trading post on Adobe Creek in 1838. [3] [4] The trading post, Fort Lupton, has been reconstructed near the site of the original fort using some of the original adobe bricks at the South Platte Valley Historical Park, which was established by the South Platte Valley Historical Society northwest of the city of Fort Lupton.
The central Platte River valley is an important stopover for migratory water birds, such as the whooping crane and sandhill crane, in their yearly traversal of the Central Flyway. Fossil evidence in the Platte River valley indicates this crane stopover has been active for over 10 million years. [12]
Platteville is located at (40.214468, -104.824070 [10]The town is situated along the east bank of the South Platte River at the intersection of U.S. Highway 85 and State Highway 66.
A small tract along the Platte River in central Nebraska. Omaha 1854 Almost all of east-central and northeast Nebraska. Oto and Missouri 1854 East-central Nebraska immediately south of the Platte River. Pawnee 1857 All of north-central Nebraska between the Platte River and the South Dakota border. Arapaho and Cheyenne 1861
Up in central north Colorado rests North Park (Colorado basin), a valley ringed by 12,000 feet (3,700 m) mountains.The headwaters of the river is essentially all of Jackson County, Colorado whose boundaries are the continental divide on the west and south and the mountain drainage peaks on the east—the north boundary is the state of Wyoming boundary.
The Platte County Fair held annually just outside Platte City began in 1863 and is the oldest continuously operating fair west of the Mississippi River. On April 3, 1882, Jesse James planned a robbery of the Platte City bank, but it was never carried out due to his assassination by Robert Ford on the morning of the raid.
Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) is the largest electric utility in the state of Nebraska, serving all or parts of 84 (of 93) counties. [1] It was formed on January 1, 1970, when Consumers Public Power District, Platte Valley Public Power and Irrigation District (PVPPID) and Nebraska Public Power System merged to become Nebraska Public Power District.
Summit Christian College is a private Christian college in Gering, Nebraska.It was established in 1951 in Scottsbluff as Platte Valley Bible College.The college is accredited by the Association for Biblical Higher Learning (ABHE) and offers on-campus and distance education programs leading to bachelor's degrees, associate degrees, and certificates.