Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Ogallala, NE

Ogallala is a city and the county seat of Keith County, Nebraska, on the South Platte River, and it observes Mountain Time despite lying in the state's west-central plains.

The Union Pacific Railroad reached the Ogallala site on May 24, 1867; the town was laid out in 1875 and incorporated in 1884.

Ogallala takes its name from the Oglala Sioux tribe.

In territorial days Ogallala was a stop on the Pony Express, and it later became famous as the northern terminus of the Great Western Cattle Trail, where Texas longhorn herds were loaded onto Union Pacific trains.

Rowdy trail-drive seasons earned Ogallala a reputation as 'Gomorrah of the West' and 'the town too tough for Texas.'

Boot Hill, Ogallala's first cemetery, used from 1874 to 1884, holds cowboys, drifters, and gamblers from the cattle-drive decade, many said to have been buried with their boots on.

The Ogallala Formation, the rock unit that holds the vast Ogallala Aquifer beneath the High Plains, was named after the city.

Front Street, an Old West-themed tourist attraction in Ogallala, recreates the city's 1880s cowtown era and includes a Cowboy Museum.

Lake McConaughy, Nebraska's largest reservoir, lies about eight miles north of Ogallala behind Kingsley Dam and is a state recreation area known for its white sand beaches, boating, and fishing.

The 2020 census counted 4,878 people in 2,123 households in Ogallala, up from 4,737 people at the 2010 census.