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Council Bluffs

Council Bluffs is a city in , just across the Missouri River from . It is known for its casinos and ties to the transcontinental railroad. It is sometimes called "Iowa's Leading Edge."…
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  • Type: City with 62,800 residents
  • Description: city and the county seat of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States
  • Also known as: “Co Bluffs”, “Council Blfs”, “Council Bluffs, IA”, “Council Bluffs, Iowa”, and “Miller’s Hollow”
  • Postal codes: 51501-51503

Places of Interest

Highlights include Grenville M. Dodge House and Ruth Anne Dodge Memorial.

Protected area
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The is a historic house museum in Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States. This Second Empire mansion, built in 1869, was the home of Grenville M.

Memorial
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The , also known as the Black Angel, is a historic object located in Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States. This is the only work in Iowa by the American sculptor Daniel Chester French.

Monument
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is a former train station in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The depot had a grand hotel as it was the terminus for the First transcontinental railroad that headed west from the depot.

Council Bluffs

Latitude
41.2588° or 41° 15′ 32″ north
Longitude
-95.8519° or 95° 51′ 7″ west
Population
62,800
Elevation
988 feet (301 metres)
IATA airport code
CBF
United Nations Location Code
US CBF
Open location code
86H6745X+G6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151750637
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4852832
Wiki­data ID
Q695565
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Council Bluffs” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كونسيل بلوفس”
  • Basque: “Council Bluffs”
  • Belarusian: “Каўнсіл Блафс”
  • Bengali: “কাউন্সিল ব্লাফস, আইওয়া”
  • Bengali: “কাউন্সিল ব্লাফস”
  • Catalan: “Council Bluffs”
  • Cebuano: “Council Bluffs”
  • Chechen: “Каунсил-Блафс”
  • Chechen: “Консил-Блафс”
  • Chinese: “Council Bluffs”
  • Chinese: “康瑟尔布拉夫斯”
  • Chinese: “康瑟爾崖”
  • Chinese: “康瑟爾布拉夫斯”
  • Czech: “Council Bluffs”
  • Dagbani: “Council Bluffs”
  • Danish: “Council Bluffs, IA”
  • Danish: “Council Bluffs, Iowa”
  • Danish: “Council Bluffs”
  • Dutch: “Council Bluffs”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كونسيل بلوفس”
  • Finnish: “Council Bluffs”
  • French: “Council Bluffs”
  • German: “Council Bluffs”
  • German: “Kanesville”
  • Gilaki: “کؤنسیل بلافس (آیؤوا)”
  • Gilaki: “کؤنسیل بلافس”
  • Greek: “Κάουνσιλ Μπλαφς”
  • Haitian: “Council Bluffs, Iowa”
  • Haitian: “Council Bluffs”
  • Hebrew: “קאונסיל בלאפס”
  • Hungarian: “Council Bluffs”
  • Ido: “Council Bluffs, Iowa”
  • Ido: “Council Bluffs”
  • Interlingua: “Council Bluffs”
  • Irish: “Council Bluffs”
  • Italian: “Council Bluffs”
  • Japanese: “カウンシル・ブラフス”
  • Japanese: “カウンシルブラフス”
  • Kazakh: “Kownsl Blaffs”
  • Kazakh: “Коунсл Блаффс”
  • Kazakh: “كوۋنسل بلاففس”
  • Kirghiz: “Коунсл Блаффс”
  • Korean: “카운실블러프스”
  • Ladin: “Council Bluffs”
  • Malagasy: “Council Bluffs, Iowa”
  • Malagasy: “Council Bluffs”
  • Marathi: “काउन्सिल ब्लफ्स”
  • Marathi: “काउंसिल ब्लफ्स”
  • Marathi: “कौन्सिल ब्लफ्स”
  • Marathi: “कौंसिल ब्लफ्स”
  • Mazanderani: “کونسیل بلوفس (آیووا)”
  • Mazanderani: “کونسیل بلوفس”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Council Bluffs”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Council Bluffs”
  • Norwegian: “Council Bluffs”
  • Ossetian: “Каунсил-Блафс”
  • Persian: “کونسیل بلوفس، آیووا”
  • Persian: “کونسیل بلوفس”
  • Polish: “Council Bluffs”
  • Portuguese: “Council Bluffs”
  • Pushto: “کاونسل بلوفس”
  • Russian: “Каунсил-Блафс”
  • Serbian: “Council Bluffs”
  • Serbian: “Каунсил Бафс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Council Bluffs, Iowa”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Council Bluffs”
  • Slovak: “Council Bluffs”
  • Slovenian: “Council Bluffs”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کونسیل بلوفس، آیووا”
  • Spanish: “Council Bluffs (Iowa)”
  • Spanish: “Council Bluffs”
  • Swedish: “Council Bluffs”
  • Talysh: “Kaunsil Blaffs”
  • Tatar: “Консил-Блафс”
  • Turkish: “Council Bluffs”
  • Ukrainian: “Консіл-Блафс”
  • Urdu: “کونسل بلفس، آئیووا”
  • Urdu: “کونسل بلفس”
  • Uzbek: “Council Bluffs”
  • Uzbek: “Cоунcил Блуффс”
  • Vietnamese: “Council Bluffs, Iowa”
  • Vietnamese: “Council Bluffs”
  • Volapük: “Council Bluffs”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Council Bluffs, Iowa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Council Bluffs”
  • Welsh: “Council Bluffs, Iowa”
  • Welsh: “Council Bluffs”

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