Council Bluffs, Iowa (usa)

Council Bluffs, Iowa

Council Bluffs, Iowa ranks 2,225th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Ioannina, Poitou, and Rochford. Memorable people born in Council Bluffs, Iowa include Lee de Forest, Harry Langdon, and Art Farmer. Memorable people who died in Council Bluffs, Iowa include Amelia Bloomer and Samuel Ryan Curtis. Council Bluffs, Iowa has been the birth place of many actors and inventors and the death place of many social activists and military personnels. Council Bluffs, Iowa is located in United States.

Council Bluffs is a city in and the county seat of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States. Its population was 62,799 as of the 2020 census, making it the state's tenth most populous city, and the most populous city in Southwest Iowa. The Omaha metropolitan region of which Council Bluffs is a part, is the 58th largest in the United States, with an estimated population of 967,604 (2020). It is located on the east bank of the Missouri River, across from Omaha, Nebraska. Until about 1853 Council Bluffs was known as Kanesville. Kanesville was the historic starting point of the Mormon Trail. Kanesville is also the northernmost anchor town of the other emigrant trails because there was a steam-powered boat which ferried the settlers' wagons and cattle across the Missouri River. In 1869, the first transcontinental railroad to California was connected to the existing U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs. Read more on Wikipedia