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Housing Units (2000): 24340
Land area (2000): 37.383513 sq. miles (96.822851 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 2.263147 sq. miles (5.861524 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 39.646660 sq. miles (102.684375 sq. km)
FIPS code: 16860
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 41.253698 N, 95.862388 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 51503
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Council Bluffs
Usage examples of "council bluffs".
At ten o'clock we assembled the chiefs and warriors, nine in number, under an awning, and Captain Lewis and I explained the speech sent to the nation from the Council Bluffs by Mr.
Had a little trouble because his car broke down in Council Bluffs.
Putting the View-Master to your eyes and clicking the white handle gave you, as I recall, a shot of Herbert Hoovers birthplace, impressively three-dimensional, followed by Iowa's other great treasure, the Little Brown Church in the Vale (which inspired the song whose tune nobody ever quite knows), the highway bridge over the Mississippi River at Davenport (all the cars seemed to be hurrying towards Illinois), a field of waving corn, the bridge over the Missouri River at Council Bluffs and the Little Brown Church in the Vale again, taken from another angle.
Her own family, her nice, normal suburban family in Council Bluffs, Iowa, had been sympathetic and , caring, but neither were they completely able to hide their disapproval of her and Dallas being in Iran in the first place.
Control over the vital communications lines passed to the Quislings in Council Bluffs, who oversee the railroad bridges and the river traffic.
He had stopped for a day in Council Bluffs, Iowa, to see once again the river town of his birth.
Twenty minutes before nine that night, we were deposited at the Pacific Transfer Station near Council Bluffs, on the eastern bank of the Missouri river.
As I recall, it stretched from Council Bluffs to Sacramento in its day.
We ain't had no high passes, and we had six days of the best travel we've had since we left Council Bluffs, with plenty of water and plenty of grass.
The locomotive rolled out of the Baldwin Works in 1906 and pulled the Overland Limited from Chicago to Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Thelocomotive rolled out of the Baldwin Works in 1906 and pulled theOverland Limited from Chicago to Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Warmed by the hope that Marty would not only emerge from the coma but with all his brain functions intact, Smith sat beside the bed, among the flashing dials and gauges of the monitors, and watched him, thinking all the way back to Council Bluffs and high school, where he and Marty had met and Jon's uncle had first diagnosed Marty's Asperger's Syndrometo Sophia's murder and the Hades virus pandemic, when he had needed Marty's genius with all things electronic.
Walker Manufacturing Company of Council Bluffs, Iowa, which manufactured patented attachments for farm implements.