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Crawford County
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county in Iowa, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Iowa
- Founded
- January 15, 1851 (created), September 3, 1855 (organized)
- Named after
- William Harris Crawford
- Seat
- Denison
- Largest city
- Denison
- Total
- 715.037 sq mi (1,851.94 km )
- Land
- 714.198 sq mi (1,849.76 km )
- Water
- 0.839 sq mi (2.17 km ) 0.12%
- Estimate 2025
- 16,237
- Density
- 23.138/sq mi (8.9336/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 4th
- Website
- crawfordcounty.iowa.gov
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Crawford County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census, the population was 16,525, and was estimated to be 16,237 in 2025. The county seat is Denison. The county was named for William Harris Crawford, U.S. senator from Georgia and United States Secretary of the Treasury.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Crawford County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.