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Colfax County
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county in Nebraska, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Nebraska
- Founded
- February 15, 1869
- Named after
- Schuyler Colfax
- Seat
- Schuyler
- Largest city
- Schuyler
- Total
- 416.517 sq mi (1,078.77 km )
- Land
- 411.460 sq mi (1,065.68 km )
- Water
- 5.057 sq mi (13.10 km ) 1.21%
- Estimate 2025
- 10,934
- Density
- 25.718/sq mi (9.9298/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Area code
- 402 and 531
- Congressional district
- 1st
- Website
- colfaxcountyne.gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Schuyler Colfax
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Nebraska
- Contains
- Schuyler
- Capital
- Schuyler
- Population
- 10582
- Area
- 1084
- Shares border with
- Platte County
- Official website
- www.colfaxne.com
- Image
- Colfax County Courthouse (Nebraska) from NE 1.JPG
- Households
- 3742
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- Commons category
- Colfax County, Nebraska
- topic's main category
- Category:Colfax County, Nebraska
- inception
- 1869-00-00
- different from
- Colfax County
- water as percent of area
- 1.2
- native label
- Colfax County
- per capita income
- 24901
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Encyclopedic overview
Colfax County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 census, the population was 10,582, and was estimated to be 10,934 in 2025. The county seat and the largest city is Schuyler.
In the Nebraska license plate system, Colfax County was represented by the prefix "43" (as it had the 43rd-largest number of vehicles registered in the state when the license plate system was established in 1922).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Colfax County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.