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It was created on February 15, 2008, encompassing the southeastern portions of the former Regional District of Comox-Strathcona, and centred about the Comox Valley. The partition left the new Comox Valley Regional District with only 8.4 percent of the former Comox-Strathcona's land area, but 57.9 percent of its population. The CVRD covers an ...
Comox Glacier. The Comox Valley is a lowland area with deep alluvial soil. [1] There are mountains to the west, and the Comox Glacier overlooks the valley, [2] [3] On the east, beaches stretch along the shore of the Strait of Georgia. [4]
Archaeological evidence suggests there was an active Coast Salish fishing settlement at Comox for at least 4,000 years. [6] Due to its gentle climate, fertile soil and abundant sea life, the Laich-kwil-tach conquerors of the area, and of the Kʼómoks, called the area kw'umuxws (Li'kwala for plentiful), which was eventually anglicized to Komoux and then to Comox.
Fremont, in Dodge County, Nebraska, was designated a micropolitan area. The Omaha–Fremont Combined Statistical Area has a population of 1,058,125 (2020 estimate). [3] [4] [5] Approximately 1.5 million people reside within the Greater Omaha area, within a 50 mi (80 km) radius of Downtown Omaha.
In North Omaha, the area of East Omaha was the first annexation to the city in 1854, and is home to a large park and the city's airport. Miller Park is a neighborhood in far North Omaha primarily developed from 1920 to 1950, bound by 30th Street on the west and Florence Blvd on the east, Miller Park on the north and Sorenson Parkway on the south.
Bellevue (French for "beautiful view"; previously named Belleview [3]) is a suburban city in Sarpy County, Nebraska, United States.It is part of the Omaha–Council Bluffs metropolitan area, and had a population of 64,176 as of the 2020 census, making it the 3rd most populous city in Nebraska, behind Omaha and Lincoln, and the second largest city in the U.S. named "Bellevue," behind Bellevue ...
Its county seat is Omaha, [1] the state's most populous city. The county was established in 1854 and named after Stephen A. Douglas (1813–1861), who was then serving as a U.S. senator from Illinois. [2] [3] Douglas County is part of the Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA Metropolitan Statistical Area. [4]
Name Address Coordinates Government recognition (CRHP №) Image Billy Booth House 307 First Street Courtenay BC : Courtenay municipality () : Comox Valley Exhibition Grounds ...