Hooker County
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county in Nebraska, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Nebraska
- Founded
- March 29, 1889
- Named after
- Joseph Hooker
- Seat
- Mullen
- Largest village
- Mullen
- Total
- 721.401 sq mi (1,868.42 km )
- Land
- 720.966 sq mi (1,867.29 km )
- Water
- 0.535 sq mi (1.39 km ) 0.07%
- Density
- 0.986/sq mi (0.381/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−7 ( Mountain )
- Summer dst
- UTC−6 ( MDT )
- Congressional district
- 3rd
- Website
- hookercountyne.gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Joseph Hooker
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Nebraska
- Contains
- Mullen
- Capital
- Mullen
- Population
- 711
- Area
- 1869
- Time zone
- Mountain Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Thomas County
- Official website
- www.co.hooker.ne.us
- Image
- Hooker County, Nebraska courthouse from NE 1.JPG
- Households
- 316
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- native label
- Hooker County
- Commons category
- Hooker County, Nebraska
- topic's main category
- Category:Hooker County, Nebraska
- inception
- 1889-00-00
- water as percent of area
- 0.05
- per capita income
- 28859
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Encyclopedic overview
Hooker County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 census, the population was 711, and was estimated to be 686 in 2025. The county seat and the largest village is Mullen, which (as of 2019) is the county's only community of substantial size.
In the Nebraska license plate system, Hooker County was represented by the prefix "93" (as it had the smallest number of registered vehicles out of the state's 93 counties of vehicles registered in the state when the license plate system was established in 1922).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hooker County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.