[4] Alliance is home to Carhenge, a replica of Stonehenge constructed with automobiles, which is located north of the city.

Holdrege, wanted to change it to a simple one-word name closer to the beginning of the alphabet, which he thought would be better for business.

[5] The U.S. Post Office gave Holdrege permission, and he picked "Alliance" for the new name of the town.

Construction was completed in August 1943 and the Army Air Corps used the facility as a training base until the end of World War II.

In the Lakota language, Alliance is known as čhasmú okáȟmi, meaning "Sand River Bend".

[7] Alliance is located at the western edge of Nebraska's Sand Hills.

[8] Located in the High Plains, Alliance's climate is rather typical of the surrounding region.

The 2020 United States census[14] counted 8,151 people, 3,445 households, and 2,173 families in Alliance.

32.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

[17] St. Agnes Academy is the local parochial school, in association with Holy Rosary and St. Bridget Catholic Churches.

St. Agnes is located within a historic building designed by noted architect William L.

[20] The BNSF railway line from the northern exit of the Powder River Basin, one of the largest coal-mining areas of the world, to Alliance and the eastern United States, sees a rather large number of coal trains every day,[21] to power plants in the Midwest and South.

Among the city's attractions is Carhenge, an assemblage of thirty-eight vehicles built in the model of Stonehenge by Jim Reinders and thirty-five family members in the summer of 1987.

The sculpture was constructed on the farm of Reinders's late father just north of Alliance.

[23] The second half of Ann Patchett's 1997 novel The Magician's Assistant is set entirely in Alliance.