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82,962. • Density. 5.9/sq mi (2.3/km 2) The Nebraska panhandle is an area in the western part of the state of Nebraska and one of several U.S. state panhandles, or elongated geographical regions that extend from their main political entity. The Nebraska panhandle is two-thirds as high and a quarter as broad as the rest of the state is.
Nebraska is the 16th largest state by land area, with just over 77,220 square miles (200,000 km 2 ). With a population of over 1.9 million, it is the 37th most populous state and the 7th least densely populated. Its capital is Lincoln, and its most populous city is Omaha, which is on the Missouri River.
List of United States senators from Nebraska. Nebraska was admitted to the Union on March 1, 1867, and elects its United States senators to class 1 and class 2. George W. Norris was the state’s longest serving senator (served 1913–1943). Nebraska's current senators are Republicans Deb Fischer (since 2013) and Pete Ricketts (since 2023).
Banner County, Nebraska. / 41.54°N 103.72°W / 41.54; -103.72. Banner County is a county in the western part of the U.S. state of Nebraska in the Great Plains region of the United States. As of the 2020 United States Census, its population was 674. [1] Its county seat is the unincorporated community of Harrisburg; there are no ...
April 24, 1973. Jail Rock from the west (1897) [2] Courthouse and Jail Rocks are two rock formations located near Bridgeport in the Nebraska Panhandle . The Oregon-California Trail, the Mormon Trail, the Pony Express Trail and the Sidney-Deadwood Trail all ran near the rocks. The pair of rock formations served as a landmark along the trails for ...
Native American tribes in the U.S. state of Nebraska have been Plains Indians, descendants of succeeding cultures of indigenous peoples who have occupied the area for thousands of years. More than 15 historic tribes have been identified as having lived in, hunted in, or otherwise occupied territory within the current state boundaries.
The geology of Nebraska is part of the broader geology of the Great Plains of the central United States. Nebraska's landscape is dominated by surface features, soil and aquifers in loosely compacted sediments, with areas of the state where thick layers of sedimentary rock outcrop. Nebraska's sediments and sedimentary rocks lie atop a basement ...
Blackbird (1855-1888) Formed from Burt County and dissolved to Thurston County. Loup (1855-1856) Formed from Burt and Un-Organized and then dissolved Madison, Monroe and Platte Counties. Jones (1856-1866) Formed from unorganized territory and dissolved into Jefferson County. Grant, Harrison, Jackson, Lynn, Monroe and Taylor counties listed in ...