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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 825 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PLATTE (so named, from the• See also:French, because of its shallowness), or See also:NEBRASKA  , a See also:river See also:system of See also:Colorado, • See also:Wyoming and See also:Nebraska, tributary to the See also:Missouri river, which it enters immediately See also:north of See also:Plattsmouth, Nebraska, 18 m. below See also:Omaha, in about 41°, 3' N. See also:lat . Including the North See also:Platte it is about goo m. See also:long from its headwaters, with a drainage See also:basin for the entire system of 90,000 sq. m . The Platte proper is formed by. the junction of the North Platte and the See also:South Platte, sometimes called the North and South Forks of the Platte, immediately below the See also:city of North Platte in See also:Lincoln See also:county, Nebraska . The North Platte and South Platte rise respectively in North See also:Park and South Park in Colorado . The tributaries of the See also:main stream all flow in from the. north; the most important being the • Loup, which empties immediately See also:east of See also:Columbus in Platte county, and the Elkhorn, which joins the Platte in See also:Douglas county, due See also:west of Omaha, See J . C . See also:Stevens, See also:Surface See also:Water See also:Supply of Nebraska (See also:Washington, 1909) .

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