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Welcome to Portal ...

Portal is located in Sarpy County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Portal, you might consider that their post office opened in 1887.

Portal is 1,030 feet [314 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Portal: 402 & 531<3>

Communities Also Named Portal ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 5 communities that are also named Portal - they are located in Arizona, Georgia, Montana, North Dakota and Ontario.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Portal.

Communities near Portal ...

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

  • Omaha
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Omaha is located in Douglas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Omaha
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 478,393 people
    • Omaha has also been known as:
    • Omaha City
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Omaha <4>
  • Council Bluffs
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Bellevue
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Plattsmouth
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Elkhorn
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Glenwood
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Gretna
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Carter Lake
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Carter Lake is located in Pottawattamie County (IA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carter Lake
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,793 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Carter Lake <4>
  • Valley
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Ashland
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)

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 Portal. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Portal.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Portal. 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 Portal.

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Portal ...

Looking for more information about Portal? 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 Portal, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Portal.

Adding Portal to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Portal 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 Portal was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Portal post office opened in 1887. The Portal post office closed in 1898.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Portal.

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 Portal - 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 Portal area will be assigned with one of these codes: 402 or 531. As a result, placing a call in the Portal 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/