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Welcome to La Platte ...

La Platte is located in Sarpy County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of La Platte, you might consider that their post office opened in 1871.

La Platte is 980 feet [299 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: La Platte lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for La Platte: 402 & 531<3>

Communities near La Platte ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near La Platte.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around La Platte. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for La Platte.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of La Platte. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around La Platte.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around La Platte. See our Newspapers Page for La Platte.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for La Platte ...

Looking for more information about La Platte? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to La Platte, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for La Platte.

Adding La Platte to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of La Platte in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for La Platte was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the La Platte post office opened in 1871. The La Platte post office closed in 1955.

For more details, see References and Mentions for La Platte.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Nebraska's counties, including Sarpy, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around La Platte - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 402 code has been Overlayed with the 531 area code. New phone numbers in the La Platte area will be assigned with one of these codes: 402 or 531. As a result, placing a call in the La Platte area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/