๐บ๐ธ Council Bluffs is a city in and the county seat of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States. The city is the most populous in Southwest Iowa, and is a primary city of the Omaha-Council Bluffs Metropolitan Area. It is located on the east bank of the Missouri River, across from the city of Omaha, Nebraska. Council Bluffs was known, until at least 1853, as Kanesville. It was the historic starting point of the Mormon Trail. Kanesville is also the northernmost anchor town of the other emigrant trails, since there was a steam-powered boat to ferry their 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.
1Economy The Bluffs Run Greyhound Park is located at Horseshoe Council Bluffs. Council Bluffs is the 19th largest casino market in the United States, with revenue equalling nearly $434 million. Casinos include Ameristar Casino Council Bluffs, Harrah's Council Bluffs, and the Horseshoe Council Bluffs.
Council Bluffs industry includes "frozen foods, robotics, dairy products, plastics, railroading, electrical products, and pork and beef packaging" per the city's website. American Games (a manufacturer of lottery gaming products), Barton Solvents, Con-Agra, Grundorf, Katelman Foundry, Omaha Standard Palfinger (a truck body manufacturer), Red Giant Oil, and Tyson Foods have manufacturing plants in the city.
Mid-American Energy runs a coal-fired plant in Council Bluffs. Google operates a server farm on the former site of the Council Bluffs drive-in theater on Veterans Memorial Highway. with a second Google campus, on Bunge Avenue, a third phase, the Southlands expansion, was announced, bringing Google's investment up to $1.5 billion, the largest private investment in Iowa's history to date. In particular, the server farms are backing the entire "us-central1" region of the Google Cloud Platform.
1Council Bluffs has a population of over 62,420 people. Council Bluffs also forms one of the centres of the wider Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area which has a population of over 1,058,125 people.
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Twin Towns, Sister Cities Council Bluffs has links with:
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๐บ๐ธ West Haven 41.272
๐น๐ท Karadeniz Ereฤli 41.279
๐ช๐ธ Castelldefels 41.28
๐บ๐ธ Wilkes-Barre 41.245
๐บ๐ธ Williamsport 41.24
๐บ๐ธ Broken Arrow -95.802
๐บ๐ธ Sugar Land -95.615
๐บ๐ธ Huntsville -95.548
๐บ๐ธ Spring Branch -95.517
๐บ๐ธ The Woodlands -95.476
๐บ๐ธ Fergus Falls -96.067
๐บ๐ธ Greenville -96.1
๐ฒ๐ฝ Boca del Rรญo -96.1
๐ฒ๐ฝ Veracruz City -96.138
Locations Near: Council Bluffs -95.862,41.253
๐บ๐ธ Omaha -95.94,41.257 d: 6.6
๐บ๐ธ Bellevue -95.933,41.15 d: 12.9
๐บ๐ธ Papillion -96.067,41.133 d: 21.7
๐บ๐ธ Lincoln -96.667,40.8 d: 84.2
๐บ๐ธ Sioux City -96.397,42.503 d: 145.9
๐บ๐ธ Saint Joseph -94.833,39.75 d: 188.4
๐บ๐ธ Winterset -94,41.333 d: 155.8
๐บ๐ธ Waukee -93.86,41.59 d: 171
๐บ๐ธ West Des Moines -93.736,41.576 d: 180.8
๐บ๐ธ Leavenworth -94.917,39.3 d: 231.5
Antipodal to: Council Bluffs 84.138,-41.253
๐ฒ๐บ Port Mathurin 63.417,-19.683 d: 16918.4
๐ฆ๐บ Bunbury 115.637,-33.327 d: 17110.9
๐ฆ๐บ Mandurah 115.721,-32.529 d: 17062.9
๐ฆ๐บ Rockingham 115.717,-32.267 d: 17049.3
๐ฆ๐บ City of Cockburn 115.833,-32.167 d: 17034.4
๐ฆ๐บ Vincent 115.834,-31.936 d: 17021.8
๐ฆ๐บ Perth 115.86,-31.956 d: 17020.8
๐ฆ๐บ Wanneroo 115.803,-31.747 d: 17014.1
๐ฆ๐บ Cannington 115.934,-32.017 d: 17018