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Pierre-Jean De Smet's map of the Council Bluffs area, 1839The area labeled Caldwell's Camp was a Potawatomi village led by Sauganash, near the site of Kanesville, later named Council Bluffs. [13] De Smet wrote an early description of the Potawatomi settlement:
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. The county takes its name from the Potawatomi Native American tribe. The county seat is Council Bluffs. [2] [3]
Location of Pottawattamie County in Iowa. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Pottawattamie County, Iowa.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States.
Council Bluffs was founded in the late 1840s as Kanesville by Mormons. When Brigham Young called all people of the faith outside of Utah to Salt Lake City in 1852, the community ceased to be majority Mormon. It was renamed Council Bluffs in 1853. The buildings here are among the earliest extant commercial buildings in the city. [2]
The Willow–Bluff–3rd Street Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. [1]
The district was significantly altered after the 1990 census, when it was reconfigured to take in the southwest quadrant of the state from Des Moines to Council Bluffs. Smith was reelected in 1992, but defeated in 1994 by Republican Greg Ganske. The 2001 remap made the 4th district a north-central Iowa district.
Interstate 880 (I-880) is an auxiliary Interstate Highway in Iowa. Its route was created in 2019 from a section of I-680 in order to facilitate the movement of I-29 traffic around Council Bluffs in the event of Missouri River flooding. [2] It follows the same routing as Interstate 80N (I-80N), which originally connected I-29 and I-80 from 1966 ...