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Butler County
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county in Nebraska, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Nebraska
- Founded
- January 26, 1856 (created), October 21, 1868 (organized)
- Named after
- William Orlando Butler
- Seat
- David City
- Largest city
- David City
- Total
- 590.812 sq mi (1,530.20 km )
- Land
- 584.789 sq mi (1,514.60 km )
- Water
- 6.023 sq mi (15.60 km ) 1.02%
- Estimate 2025
- 8,507
- Density
- 14.31/sq mi (5.526/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Area code
- 402 and 531
- Congressional district
- 1st
- Website
- butlercountyne.gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- William Orlando Butler
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Nebraska
- Contains
- David City
- Capital
- David City
- Population
- 8369
- Area
- 1514
- Shares border with
- York County
- Official website
- www.co.butler.ne.us
- Image
- Butler County, Nebraska courthouse from E 2.JPG
- Households
- 3387
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- topic's main category
- Category:Butler County, Nebraska
- inception
- 1868-00-00
- Commons category
- Butler County, Nebraska
- different from
- Butler County
- water as percent of area
- 1
- native label
- Butler County
- per capita income
- 33418
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Butler County, Nebraska
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Encyclopedic overview
Butler County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,369, and was estimated to be 8,507 in 2025. The county seat and the largest city is David City.
In the Nebraska license plate system, Butler County was represented by the prefix "25" (as it had the 25th-largest number of vehicles registered in the state when the license plate system was established in 1922).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Butler County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.