Council Bluffs, IA
| Council Bluffs, Iowa Historical: Kanesville, Iowa |
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| Motto(s): "Iowa's Spirit" | |
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 Council Bluffs, Iowa
Historical: Kanesville, Iowa Location in the United States
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| Coordinates: 41°15′N 95°52′W / 41.250°N 95.867°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Iowa |
| County | Pottawattamie |
| Incorporated | January 19, 1853 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Matt Walsh |
| • City Council | Sharon White, Nathan Watson, Lynne Branigan, Melissa Head, Al Ringgenberg |
| Area | |
| • City | 43.62 sq mi (112.98 km2) |
| • Land | 40.97 sq mi (106.11 km2) |
| • Water | 2.65 sq mi (6.86 km2) |
| Elevation | 1,090 ft (332 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • City | 62,230 |
| • Estimate (2016) | 62,524 |
| • Rank | 7th in Iowa |
| • Density | 1,519/sq mi (586.5/km2) |
| • Metro | 865,350 |
| Time zone | CST (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP codes | 51501-51503 |
| Area code(s) | 712 |
| FIPS code | 19-16860 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0455672 |
| Website | councilbluffs-ia.gov |
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 a principal city in the Omaha–Council Bluffs metropolitan area. It is located on the east bank of the Missouri River, across from 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.
Council Bluffs' population was 62,230 at the 2010 census. Along with neighboring Omaha to the west, Council Bluffs was part of the 60th-largest metropolitan area in the United States in 2010, which had an estimated population of 865,350 residing in the eight counties of the Omaha–Council Bluffs metropolitan area.
Council Bluffs is more than a decade older than Omaha. The latter, founded in 1854 by Council Bluffs businessmen and speculators following the Kansas–Nebraska Act, has grown to be a significantly larger city.
The first Council Bluff (singular) was on the Nebraska side of the river at Fort Atkinson (Nebraska), about 20 miles northwest of the current city of Council Bluffs. It was named by Lewis and Clark for a bluff where they met the Otoe tribe on August 2, 1804.
The Iowa side of the river became an Indian Reservation in the 1830s for members of the Council of Three Fires of Chippewa, Ottawa and Potawatomi, who were forced to leave the Chicago area under the Treaty of Chicago, which clearing the way for the city of Chicago to incorporate.
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