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Burt County
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county in Nebraska, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Nebraska
- Founded
- November 23, 1854
- Named after
- Francis Burt
- Seat
- Tekamah
- Largest city
- Tekamah
- Total
- 497.064 sq mi (1,287.39 km )
- Land
- 491.587 sq mi (1,273.20 km )
- Water
- 5.477 sq mi (14.19 km ) 1.10%
- Estimate 2025
- 6,678
- Density
- 13.67/sq mi (5.280/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Area code
- 402 and 531
- Congressional district
- 3rd
- Website
- burtcountyne.gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Burt County
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Encyclopedic overview
Burt County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska, bordering the west bank of the upper Missouri River. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,722, and was estimated to be 6,678 in 2025. The county seat and the largest city is Tekamah.
In the Nebraska license plate system, Burt County was represented by the prefix "31" (as it had the 31st-largest number of vehicles registered in the state when the license plate system was established in 1922).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Burt County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.