Columbus

Columbus lies along Nebraska’s Loup River near its meeting with the Platte River, where the broad Platte Valley opens into the state’s agricultural heartland. As the seat of Platte County, it serves a regional landscape of irrigated fields, grain production and transport corridors shaped by rivers and railways. The community was founded in 1866, as the Union Pacific Railroad was pushing west across Nebraska. Columbus is also the birthplace of Andrew Jackson Higgins, the New Orleans boatbuilder whose landing craft became central to Allied amphibious operations in the Second World War. Explore additional webcams nearby to better understand how Columbus relates to the Platte and Loup river valleys.

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