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Columbus, NE

#232 of 422 U.S. rack markets by terminals

OPIS rack city 313 Gasoline & diesel Ethanol
terminals
1
pipeline systems delivering
1
refineries confirmed
0
more per research or by route
3
people in the trade area
78,739
gal/day gasoline · estimated demand
109,753
gal/day diesel · estimated demand
63,631

Terminals in this market

The racks that post prices in this market. Pipelines = systems with a tariff delivery point at the terminal.
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Terminal TCN Location Delivered by
Nustar Pipeline Operating Partnership LP - Columbus Terminal T-47-NE-3600 Columbus, NE NuStar Pipeline

Pipelines delivering to this market

Each system with a tariff delivery point at one of this market’s terminals, and how many running refineries can ship on it to here.

Pipeline system Terminals here Delivery points Refineries confirmed All reachable
NuStar Pipeline 1 1 0 2

Refineries that can supply this market

Running refineries that can reach a terminal here by published route, including across connecting carriers, confirmed links first. 0 are confirmed or named in a tariff; 0 are per research; 3 are inferred because the refinery shares a city with a tariff origin. Capacity, contracts and who actually ships are not known from tariffs.
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Refinery Location Via Link
Borger Refinery (WRB Refining / Phillips 66) Borger, TX Phillips 66 Pipeline inferred (same city)
CHS McPherson Refinery Mcpherson, KS NuStar Pipeline inferred (same city)
Phillips 66 Ponca City Refinery Ponca City, OK NuStar Pipeline inferred (same city)

Trade area

people in the trade area · 2025 estimate
78,739
rank of 422 rack markets by people
#369
gallons of gasoline a day · estimate, 2025
109,753
gallons of diesel a day · estimate, 2025
63,631
counties wholly in this market
0
counties shared with other markets
22
An estimate of who lifts here. Each county goes to its nearest rack market with terminals; a market within 1.5 times that distance (or 25 miles more) shares it, up to 4 markets, weighted toward the closer one and the one with more terminals. Distances are straight-line from the county’s centre. Shares of a county always add to 100%, so the people counted across all markets add back to the U.S. total.
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County State Share here People counted here Gasoline gal/day Diesel gal/day County population Miles
Platte County NE 62% 21,942 25,213 10,920 35,649 17
Dodge County NE 37% 13,990 17,714 7,008 38,057 32
Colfax County NE 89% 9,694 13,222 7,482 10,934 12
Madison County NE 15% 5,261 5,689 2,131 36,106 38
Saunders County NE 21% 4,887 6,080 3,320 23,702 34
Butler County NE 54% 4,587 8,548 5,430 8,507 16
Cuming County NE 33% 2,881 4,846 3,009 8,823 41
Holt County NE 25% 2,521 4,169 2,592 10,067 106
Seward County NE 12% 2,086 4,931 6,802 18,032 39
Boone County NE 31% 1,654 2,555 1,537 5,355 46
York County NE 10% 1,520 4,164 5,348 14,564 43
Stanton County NE 24% 1,351 2,262 1,315 5,744 32
Merrick County NE 16% 1,227 2,512 1,600 7,905 45
Burt County NE 17% 1,166 1,597 1,049 6,678 55
Nance County NE 29% 947 1,176 792 3,290 39
Valley County NE 19% 773 1,129 744 4,094 90
Polk County NE 15% 770 1,143 705 5,270 24
Greeley County NE 21% 458 859 563 2,154 67
Garfield County NE 21% 362 568 379 1,710 94
Boyd County NE 19% 324 505 287 1,674 128
Wheeler County NE 22% 174 516 405 789 74
Keya Paha County NE 21% 164 353 211 792 161

Fuel demand is an estimate: each state’s taxed gallons for the year (FHWA) are split among its counties by where the driving happens (EPA county vehicle miles, weighted by how much fuel each vehicle type burns), then shared to markets as above. Every state adds back to its FHWA total. Gasoline includes the ethanol blended into it; diesel is FHWA’s special fuels. Expect diesel to be least reliable along long-haul corridors, where trucks buy fuel in one county and burn it in another. Population: U.S. Census Bureau county estimates.

Cost to serve this market by pipeline

¢/gal · cheapest gasoline · from Ponca City, OK on NuStar Pipeline
6.33
¢/gal · cheapest diesel · from Ponca City, OK on NuStar Pipeline
6.33
Published line-haul rates into a terminal here, cheapest first (3 of 3 routes). Add the origin spot price for a delivered cost; compare that with the rack price for the netback. Not included: terminal throughput and rack fees, and the 19 conditional tariff fees listed on each pipeline page.
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Origin Pipeline Delivery point Product ¢/bbl ¢/gal Refineries at the origin Tariff
Ponca City, OK NuStar Pipeline Columbus, NE gasoline, distillate 265.74 6.33 Phillips 66 Ponca City Refinery FERC No. 17.47.0 item 130
McPherson, KS NuStar Pipeline Columbus, NE gasoline, distillate 271.29 6.46 CHS McPherson Refinery FERC No. 17.47.0 item 100
Arkansas City, KS / Wichita, KS / El Dorado, KS / Conway, KS NuStar Pipeline Columbus, NE gasoline, distillate 281.49 6.70 FERC No. 17.47.0 item 100

Supply resilience

pipeline supply
One pipeline
pipeline systems delivering
1
terminals on two or more pipelines
0
terminals with no pipeline tariff
0

One pipeline system delivers here: NuStar Pipeline. An outage on it leaves the market to truck, rail or water.

If a pipeline system goes down

Pipeline system Terminals it reaches here With no other pipeline Which
NuStar Pipeline 1 1 Nustar Pipeline Operating Partnership LP - Columbus Terminal

Counts pipeline systems with a tariff delivery point here, not capacity, storage or contracts. A system with two lines into the market still counts once, and a terminal with one pipeline may also receive by truck, rail or water. For a refinery or pipeline outage across every market it touches, open that facility’s page.

Delivered ethanol cost

¢/gal over Chicago ethanol · lowest in the market
-10.10
¢/gal over Chicago ethanol · highest
-10.10

An estimate for each terminal: the cheapest of published rail rates and trucking from the nearest plants, plus basis, transload, terminaling and carrying cost. Each terminal page shows the build-up line by line.

Terminal ¢/gal over Chicago By From Miles
Nustar Pipeline Operating Partnership LP - Columbus Terminal -10.10 truck VCP Corn Processing (Columbus, NE) 3

Nearby rack markets

Rack markets within 75 miles (straight line): where a buyer here could also lift.

Rack market Miles Terminals Pipelines
Osceola, NE 22 1 1
Norfolk, NE 46 1 1
Lincoln, NE 56 3 2
Geneva, NE 64 1 1
Omaha, NE 69 1 1
Council Bluffs, IA 74 3 3

Rates are pipeline line-haul transcribed from published FERC tariffs; every figure cites its tariff and item. Cost to serve (netback) adds origin spot price and destination fees. "Confirmed" links match a tariff delivery point to the facility; "same city" means the point is in the facility's city — plausible, not proof; "per research" means the facility's research profile names the pipeline as an outlet.