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History of Council Bluffs, Iowa

Council Bluffs is the county seat of Pottawattamie County, Iowa|Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States on the east bank of the Missouri River. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 58,268. Council Bluffs is several decades older than its significantly larger neighbor across the river, the city of Omaha, Nebraska, which was founded by Council Bluffs businessmen and speculators in 1854 following the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Although Council Bluffs is only the eighth largest city in Iowa, the population of the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area far exceeds any other city in the state.


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