Douglas County

Douglas County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nebraska. It is the state's most populous county, home to over one-fourth of Nebraska's residents. As of 2000, the population was 463,585. The 2006 census estimate placed the population at 492,003. Its county seat is Omaha, the state's largest city. It is one of five Nebraska counties in the eight-county Omaha-Council Bluffs Metropolitan Statistical Area.

[edit] Departments

• Administrative Services
• Board of Equalization
• Clerk of the District Court
• Criminal Justice Systems Management Council
• Corrections
• Assessor
• Attorney
• Clerk/Comptroller
• Commissioners
• Engineer
• Planning Commission
• Sheriff
• Treasurer
• Register of Deeds
• District Court - 4th Judicial District
• County Fair
• Health Center
• Purchasing
• Election Commission
• Emergency Management Agency
• Environmental Services
• Landfill
• Rural Planning & Zoning
• Rural Permits & Inspections
• Noxious Weed Control
• Health Department
• Human Resources
• Jury Commissioner
• Juvenile Assessment Center (JAC)
• Juvenile Court
• Land Reutilization
• Local Emergency Planning Committee
• Metro Area Planning Agency (MAPA)
• Omaha-Douglas Public Building Commission (ODPBC)
• Omaha Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB)

[edit] Trivia

In the Nebraska license plate system, Douglas County was represented by the prefix 1 (it had the largest number of vehicles registered in the county when the license plate system was established in 1922). In 2002, the state discontinued the 1922 system in Douglas, Sarpy and Lancaster counties.

[edit] See also

• List of Registered Historic Places in Douglas County

[edit] External links

• Douglas County official website.

This article uses content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Douglas County, Nebraska. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with this wiki, the text of Wikipedia is available under the CC by-sa 3.0 License.

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