Douglas County Nebraska
Douglas County, Nebraska is reputed to be the county of the state that has the most number of citizens – their population as of the year 2006 had an official count of about four hundred and ninety-two thousand individual citizens in its population, and the number has undoubtedly grown since then. Apart from this, Douglas County Nebraska is also known as the county where one of the state’s major cities, Omaha, sits – in fact, Omaha is the county seat of Douglas County Nebraska.
Named after Stephen Arthur Douglas (an Illinois politician who had been one of the Presidential nominees of the Democratic Party in 1860, and who had been responsible for the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854), Douglas County, Nebraska was established in 1855. The name Douglas County Nebraska may not ring such a strong bell in most people’s minds; however, that doesn’t mean that the county isn’t any less significant.
As was mentioned before, Douglas County, Nebraska’s county seat is Omaha, which is one of the major cities in the state and the home of the University of Nebaska-Omaha. Douglas County Nebraska also plays home to the famous Boy’s Town Village, which was made famous by a touching Hollywood movie of the same name.