 sarpy county is a county located in the u.s. state of nebraska. as of the 2010 census, the population was 158,840, making it the third most populous county in nebraska. its county seat is papillion. sarpy county is included in the omaha-council bluffs, ne-ia metropolitan statistical area. in the nebraska license plate system, sarpy county was represented by the prefix "59" (it had the fifty-ninth largest number of vehicles registered in the county when the license plate system was established in 1922). many license plates issued in sarpy county featured the stacked format of the 59 code. the county, just south of omaha, had grown significantly in population in the decades following 1922 and therefore required five characters rather than the four allowed by a standard double-digit county code. in 2002, the state discontinued the 1922 system in sarpy, douglas and lancaster counties. ==geography== according to the u.s. census bureau, the county has a total area of , of which  is land and  (2.73%) is water. sarpy county has the smallest area of any county in nebraska. ===major hi
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