Scottsbluff, Nebraska

Scottsbluff, Nebraska
City
Looking South on Broadway in Downtown Scottsbluff, July 2017
Location of Scottsbluff, Nebraska
Coordinates: 41°52′06″N 103°39′52″W / 41.86833°N 103.66444°W / 41.86833; -103.66444
Country	United States
State	Nebraska
County	Scotts Bluff
Founded	1900
Government
• Mayor	Jeanne McKerrigan
Area [1]
• Total	6.68 sq mi (17.30 km2)
• Land	6.63 sq mi (17.18 km2)
• Water	0.04 sq mi (0.12 km2)
Elevation [2]	3,888 ft (1,185 m)
Population  (2020)
• Total	14,436
• Density	2,176.06/sq mi (840.19/km2)
Time zone	UTC−7 (Mountain (MST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC−6 (MDT)
ZIP codes	69361, 69363
Area code	308
FIPS code	31-44245
GNIS feature ID	2396559[2]
Website	www.scottsbluff.org

Scottsbluff is a city in Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska, United States, in the Great Plains region. The population was 14,436 at the 2020 census. Scottsbluff is the largest city in the Nebraska Panhandle, and the 13th-most-populous city in Nebraska.

Scottsbluff was founded in 1899 across the North Platte River from its namesake, a bluff that is now protected by the National Park Service as Scotts Bluff National Monument. The monument was named after Hiram Scott (1805–1828), a fur trader with the Rocky Mountain Fur Company who was found dead in the vicinity on the return trip from a fur expedition. The smaller town of Gering had been founded south of the river in 1887.^[3] The two cities have since grown together to form the 7th-largest urban area (the Scottsbluff Micropolitan Statistical Area) in Nebraska.