Columbus

Columbus is the county seat of , situated at the confluence of the and rivers roughly 85 miles west-northwest of and 75 miles northwest of by road, near the county's southern edge.
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  • Type: City with 21,400 residents
  • Description: city in and county seat of Platte County, Nebraska, United States
  • Also known as: “Columbus, NE” and “Columbus, Nebraska”
  • Postal codes: 68601 and 68602

Places of Interest

Highlights include Columbus Municipal Airport and Columbus High School.

Aerodrome
is a mile northeast of Columbus, in , . It is owned by the Columbus Airport Authority; it has 100LL and JetA fuel for sale.

School
is a high school in Columbus, Nebraska, United States. It is part of the Columbus Public Schools district.

School
is a private, Roman Catholic high school in Columbus, Nebraska, United States. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Omaha.

Columbus

Latitude
41.4293° or 41° 25′ 46″ north
Longitude
-97.3581° or 97° 21′ 29″ west
Population
21,400
Elevation
1,447 feet (441 metres)
IATA airport code
OLU
Open location code
86H4CJHR+PP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151353183
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
5066001
Wiki­data ID
Q932391
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Columbus” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Columbus, Nebraska”
  • Afrikaans: “Columbus”
  • Arabic: “كولمبوس”
  • Basque: “Columbus”
  • Bengali: “কলম্বাস”
  • Catalan: “Columbus”
  • Cebuano: “Columbus”
  • Chechen: “Колумбус”
  • Chinese: “Columbus”
  • Chinese: “哥伦布”
  • Chinese: “哥倫布”
  • Croatian: “Columbus”
  • Czech: “Columbus”
  • Danish: “Columbus”
  • Dutch: “Columbus”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كولمبوس”
  • Esperanto: “Columbus”
  • Finnish: “Columbus”
  • French: “Columbus”
  • German: “Columbus”
  • Gilaki: “کؤلؤمبؤس”
  • Greek: “Κολούμπους”
  • Gujarati: “કોલમ્બસ”
  • Haitian: “Columbus, Nebraska”
  • Haitian: “Columbus”
  • Hindi: “कोलंबस”
  • Hungarian: “Columbus”
  • Indonesian: “Columbus”
  • Irish: “Columbus”
  • Italian: “Columbus”
  • Japanese: “コロンバス”
  • Kannada: “ಕೊಲಂಬಸ್”
  • Kazakh: “Колумбус”
  • Kirghiz: “Колумбус”
  • Korean: “콜럼버스”
  • Ladin: “Columbus”
  • Latvian: “Kolumbusa”
  • Lithuanian: “Kolumbusas”
  • Malagasy: “Columbus, Nebraska”
  • Malagasy: “Columbus”
  • Malay: “Columbus”
  • Marathi: “कोलंबस”
  • Mazanderani: “کلمبوس”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Columbus”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Columbus”
  • Norwegian: “Columbus”
  • Persian: “کلامبس”
  • Persian: “کلمبوس، نبراسکا”
  • Persian: “کلمبوس”
  • Polish: “Columbus”
  • Portuguese: “Columbus”
  • Russian: “Колумбус (Небраска)”
  • Russian: “Колумбус”
  • Serbian: “Коламбус”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Columbus, Nebraska”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Columbus”
  • Sinhala: “කොලොම්බස්”
  • Slovak: “Columbus”
  • Slovenian: “Columbus”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کلمبوس، نبراسکا”
  • Spanish: “Columbus (Nebraska)”
  • Spanish: “Columbus”
  • Swedish: “Columbus, Nebraska”
  • Swedish: “Columbus”
  • Tamil: “கொலம்பஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Колумбус (Небраска)”
  • Tatar: “Колумбус”
  • Telugu: “కొలంబస్”
  • Thai: “โคลัมบัส”
  • Turkish: “Columbus, Nebraska”
  • Turkish: “Columbus”
  • Ukrainian: “Колумбус”
  • Urdu: “کولمبس، نیبراسکا”
  • Urdu: “کولمبس”
  • Uzbek: “Columbus”
  • Vietnamese: “Columbus”
  • Volapük: “Columbus”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Columbus, Nebraska”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Columbus”
  • Welsh: “Columbus, Nebraska”
  • Welsh: “Columbus”

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