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Clay County
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county in Nebraska, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Nebraska
- Founded
- 1855 (authorized), 1871 (organized)
- Named after
- Henry Clay
- Seat
- Clay Center
- Largest city
- Sutton
- Total
- 574 sq mi (1,490 km )
- Land
- 572 sq mi (1,480 km )
- Water
- 1.2 sq mi (3.1 km ) 0.2%
- Estimate 2025
- 6,170
- Density
- 11/sq mi (4.2/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 3rd
- Website
- www .claycounty .ne .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Clay County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 6,104. Its county seat is Clay Center. The county was formed in 1855, and was organized in 1871. It was named for Henry Clay, a member of the United States Senate from Kentucky, who went on to become United States Secretary of State. In the Nebraska license plate system, Clay County is represented by the prefix 30 (it had the 30th-largest number of vehicles registered in the county when the license plate system was established in 1922).
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Clay County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.