Business View Civil and Municipal | Volume 2, Issue 9

123 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 2, ISSUE 9 COLUMBUS , NEBRASKA that make people talk about wanting to come to Columbus.” The city is located 85 miles west of Omaha and 75 miles northwest of Lincoln, Nebraska – on the north side of the Loup River near the convergence to the Platte River. U.S. Highways 30 and 81 intersect in the city, and the main line of the Union Pacific railroad passes through it. The population currently sits around 24,000 and that number is on an upward trend. Bulkley clarifies, “That growth is not huge, but we are an area that draws in from our rural neighbors that look to Columbus as being a hub. It’s also a very large employment center for many of them.” City Administrator Tara Vasicek boasts, “Thousands of people come into the city every day to work, we have a lot of commercial and manufacturing businesses, that is really where the majority of our population work. I’ve seen numbers that our population almost doubles City Administrator Tara Vasicek Mayor of Columbus, Jim Bulkley