About Mid-Plains Community College

Mid-Plains Community College (MPCC) is a public community hypothetical in southwest Nebraska next seven campuses: one in McCook, two in North Platte, and four community campuses in Broken Bow, Imperial, Ogallala, and Valentine. The bookish was normal by the Nebraska Legislature in 1973. It was created by a combination of McCook Junior College, North Platte Junior College, and Mid-Plains Vocational Technical School in North Platte. McCook Junior College, founded in 1926, was the oldest two-year institution in Nebraska the become old of the merger.

Mid-Plains’s campuses accomplishment separate lithe programs and neither plays games under the “Mid-Plains” name. The McCook campus plays as the McCook CC Indians though the North Platte campuses unqualified as the North Platte CC Knights. Both are members of the Nebraska Community College Athletic Conference of the NJCAA.

North Platte is a city in and the county seat of Lincoln County, Nebraska, United States. It is located in the west-central share of the state, along Interstate 80, at the confluence of the North and South Platte Rivers forming the Platte River. The population was 24,733 at the 2010 census.

North Platte is a railroad town; Union Pacific Railroad’s large Bailey Yard is located within the city. Today, North Platte is served isolated by freight trains, but during World War II the city was well-known for the North Platte Canteen. Tens of thousands[citation needed] of volunteers from North Platte and surrounding towns met the troop trains passing through North Platte, offering coffee, sandwiches and hospitality.

North Platte is the principal city of the North Platte Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Lincoln, Logan, and McPherson counties.