Brown County
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county in Nebraska, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Nebraska
- Founded
- February 19, 1883
- Seat
- Ainsworth
- Largest city
- Ainsworth
- Total
- 1,225.145 sq mi (3,173.11 km )
- Land
- 1,221.405 sq mi (3,163.42 km )
- Water
- 3.740 sq mi (9.69 km ) 0.31%
- Estimate 2025
- 2,826
- Density
- 2.377/sq mi (0.9177/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Area code
- 402 and 531
- Congressional district
- 3rd
- Website
- browncountyne.gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Brown County
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Nebraska
- Contains
- Ainsworth
- Capital
- Ainsworth
- Population
- 2903
- Area
- 3173
- Shares border with
- Cherry County
- Official website
- browncounty.ne.gov
- Image
- Brown County Courthouse (Nebraska) from SW 2.JPG
- Households
- 1333
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- Commons category
- Brown County, Nebraska
- topic's main category
- Category:Brown County, Nebraska
- inception
- 1883-00-00
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Brown County, Nebraska
- different from
- Brown County
- native label
- Brown County
- water as percent of area
- 0.31
- per capita income
- 29420
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Encyclopedic overview
Brown County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,903, and was estimated to be 2,826 in 2025. The county seat and the largest city is Ainsworth.
In the Nebraska license plate system, Brown County was represented by the prefix "75" (as it had the 75th-largest number of vehicles registered in the state when the license plate system was established in 1922).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Brown County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.