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Box Butte County
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county in Nebraska, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Nebraska
- Founded
- November 2, 1886
- Seat
- Alliance
- Largest city
- Alliance
- Total
- 1,077.908 sq mi (2,791.77 km )
- Land
- 1,075.233 sq mi (2,784.84 km )
- Water
- 2.675 sq mi (6.93 km ) 0.25%
- Estimate 2025
- 10,494
- Density
- 10.083/sq mi (3.8932/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−7 ( Mountain )
- Summer dst
- UTC−6 ( MDT )
- Congressional district
- 3rd
- Website
- boxbuttecountyne.gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Nebraska
- Capital
- Alliance
- Population
- 10842
- Area
- 2792
- Time zone
- UTC−07:00
- Shares border with
- Sheridan County
- Headquarters
- Alliance
- Official website
- www.co.box-butte.ne.us
- Image
- Box Butte County courthouse from SW 2.JPG
- Households
- 4601
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- water as percent of area
- 0.2
- native label
- Box Butte County
- Commons category
- Box Butte County, Nebraska
- topic's main category
- Category:Box Butte County, Nebraska
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Box Butte County, Nebraska
- inception
- 1886-00-00
- per capita income
- 29447
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Encyclopedic overview
Box Butte County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 census, the population was 10,842, and was estimated to be 10,494 in 2025. The county seat and largest city is Alliance.
In the Nebraska license plate system, Box Butte County was represented by the prefix "65" (as it had the 65th-largest number of vehicles registered in the state when the license plate system was established in 1922).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Box Butte County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.