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Dickinson County
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county in northwestern Iowa, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Iowa
- Named after
- Daniel S. Dickinson
- Seat
- Spirit Lake
- Largest city
- Spirit Lake
- Total
- 404 sq mi (1,050 km )
- Land
- 381 sq mi (990 km )
- Water
- 23 sq mi (60 km ) 5.8%
- Estimate 2025
- 18,077
- Density
- 46.5/sq mi (17.9/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 4th
- Website
- dickinsoncountyiowa .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Daniel S. Dickinson
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Iowa
- Contains
- Spirit Lake
- Capital
- Spirit Lake
- Population
- 17703
- Area
- 987
- Shares border with
- O'Brien County
- Official website
- dickinsoncountyiowa.gov
- Image
- New Dickinson County Courthouse, Spirit Lake, IA.jpg
- Households
- 8479
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- different from
- Dickinson County
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Dickinson County, Iowa
- Commons category
- Dickinson County, Iowa
- topic's main category
- Category:Dickinson County, Iowa
- inception
- 1857-00-00
- water as percent of area
- 5.8
- native label
- Dickinson County
- per capita income
- 39366
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Encyclopedic overview
Dickinson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,703. The county seat is Spirit Lake. The county was organized in 1857 and is named in honor of Daniel S. Dickinson, a U.S. Senator for New York.
Dickinson County comprises the Spirit Lake, IA Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dickinson County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.