Loup River
The Loup River is a tributary of the Platte River, approximately 68 miles long, in central Nebraska in the United States. The river drains a sparsely populated rural agricultural area on the eastern edge of the Great Plains southeast of the Sandhills.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Nebraska, United States
- Also known as: “Ickari”, “Its kari Kitsa”, “Its Kitsu”, “Kus deco”, “Kus lecha”, “Loup Fork”, “Nu tan ke”, “Panimaha”, “Pawnee Loup River”, “Pawnee Wolf River”, “Wolf Fork Platte River”, and “Wolf River”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Columbus and Bellwood.
Columbus
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Columbus is the county seat of Platte County, Nebraska, situated at the confluence of the Loup and Platte rivers roughly 85 miles west-northwest of Omaha and 75 miles northwest of Lincoln by road, near the county's southern edge.
Bellwood
Village
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Bellwood is a village in Butler County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 407 at the 2020 census. Bellwood is situated 6 miles southeast of Loup River.
Richland
Hamlet
Photo: MrKoch1900, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Richland is a village in Colfax County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 73 at the 2010 census. Richland is situated 6 miles northeast of Loup River.
Loup River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Platte, Nebraska, Great Plains, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Loup River” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Loup”
- Catalan: “Loup”
- Cebuano: “Loup River”
- Chinese: “卢普河”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر لوپ”
- French: “Loup”
- Hebrew: “נהר לופ”
- Irish: “Abhainn Loup”
- Japanese: “ループ川”
- Lithuanian: “Lupas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Loup River”
- Slovenian: “Loup River”
- Slovenian: “Loup”
- Slovenian: “reka Loup”
- Spanish: “Rio Loup”
- Spanish: “Río Loup”
- Venetian: “Loup”
- Vietnamese: “sông Loup”
- Welsh: “Afon Loup”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Carriage House Estates and Country Mobile Villa.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Quail Run Golf Course and Centennial Park Baseball Complex.
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