Facts About Omaha
- Omaha is home to the Largest Indoor Desert & the Largest Indoor Rainforest
- In 1950, Johnny Carson started his broadcasting career at WOW Radio and Television in Omaha.
- Warren Buffet, the former richest person on the planet, is one among many ultra-rich individuals who hail from Omaha, Nebraska.
- The Reuben sandwich was invented in Omaha, originally crafted by Omaha’s own Reuben Kulakofsky in the heart of the Blackstone Hotel.
- The original settlers in Omaha were various Native American tribes. The word Omaha translates to ‘Dwellers on the bluff’,
- Omaha is also the home to five Fortune 1000 headquarters: Green Plains, Intrado, TD Ameritrade, Valmont Industries, and Werner Enterprises.
- Omaha also called the Gateway to the West, is known for the world-class Henry Doorly Zoo and as the home of business magnate Warren Buffett.
- Terrance Bud Crawford, the undefeated World Champion boxer, was born in 1987.
- Omaha was bombed by Japan in 1945, a Japanese balloon bomb exploded in the Dundee neighbourhood during World War II.
- The Godfather, actor Marlon Brando, was born in Omaha in 1924.
- The word Omaha (actually Umoⁿhoⁿ or Umaⁿhaⁿ) means “Dwellers on the bluff”.
- The city was founded along the Missouri River, and a crossing called Lone Tree Ferry earned the city its nickname, the “Gateway to the West”.
- Butter brickle ice cream was invented in Omaha, try a version of it at Coneflower Creamery.
- Omaha is ranked as a global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, which in 2020 gave it “sufficiency” status.
- Omaha hosted the World’s Fair in the year 1898.
- Omaha is generally divided into six geographic areas: Downtown, Midtown, North Omaha, South Omaha, West Omaha, and East Omaha.
- The lowest temperature in recorded in Omaha was −32 °F on January 5, 1884, and the highest was 114 °F on July 25, 1936. Average yearly precipitation is 30.6 in, falling mostly in the warmer months.
- Omaha, or Swim City, USA, played host to the U.S. Olympic Swim Trials for four consecutive trials through 2021.
- Mr Magnificent Mr Majestic, the swamp white oak tree is the largest tree in Nebraska.
- Comedian Amber Ruffin was born in 1979 in Omaha. She’s a graduate of Benson High School.
- Omaha is located at 41°15′N 96°0′W.
- Omaha is the 29th largest city in the U.S., with a population of 486,051
- Omaha is twinned with the following sister cities Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany; Naas, County Kildare, Leinster, Ireland; Yantai, Shandong, China; Šiauliai, Lithuania; Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico & Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan.
- Omaha’s Old Market neighbourhood is a group of brick buildings and brick-paved streets originally built between 1880 and 1920.
- Omaha’s world-famous zoo dates back to 1894 when it was founded as Riverview Park Zoo. In 1963, the name was changed to the Henry Doorly Zoo after Margaret Hitchcock Doorly donated $750,000 in memory of her late husband, who had been chairman of the World Publishing Company.
- Omaha hosts the Collegiate Baseball Championship every summer
- In 2013, Business Insider voted Omaha the “most hungover city in America,”
- President Gerald Ford was born in 1913 in Omaha and lived in the city for just a short time. He was the 38th President of the U.S.
- As long as ConAgra Foods called Omaha home, you could find a six-foot-tall statue of Chef Boyardee standing happily outside their building.
- Omaha is home to one of the country’s largest non-profit community theatres, Omaha Community Playhouse.
