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Brown County
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county in Kansas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Kansas
- Founded
- August 25, 1855
- Named after
- Albert Gallatin Brown
- Seat
- Hiawatha
- Largest city
- Hiawatha
- Total
- 572 sq mi (1,480 km )
- Land
- 571 sq mi (1,480 km )
- Water
- 1.2 sq mi (3.1 km ) 0.2%
- Estimate 2025
- 9,104
- Density
- 16.7/sq mi (6.4/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 2nd
- Website
- brcoks.org
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Brown County, KS | Official Website
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Encyclopedic overview
Brown County is a county located in the northeastern portion of the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat and most populous city is Hiawatha. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 9,508. The county was named after Albert G. Brown, a U.S. Senator from Mississippi and Kansas statehood advocate. The Kickapoo Indian Reservation of Kansas, the majority of the Sac and Fox Reservation, and the majority of the Iowa Reservation of Kansas and Nebraska are located within the county.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Brown County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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