Ida County
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county in Iowa, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Iowa
- Founded
- January 15, 1851
- Seat
- Ida Grove
- Largest city
- Ida Grove
- Total
- 432 sq mi (1,120 km )
- Land
- 432 sq mi (1,120 km )
- Water
- 0.5 sq mi (1.3 km ) 0.1%
- Estimate 2025
- 6,777
- Density
- 16.2/sq mi (6.26/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 4th
- Website
- idacounty .iowa .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Mount Ida
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Iowa
- Contains
- Ida Grove
- Capital
- Ida Grove
- Population
- 7005
- Area
- 1119
- Shares border with
- Monona County
- Official website
- idacounty.iowa.gov
- Image
- Ida County IA Courthouse.jpg
- Households
- 2972
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- Commons category
- Ida County, Iowa
- topic's main category
- Category:Ida County, Iowa
- topic has template
- Template:Ida County, Iowa
- inception
- 1851-00-00
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Ida County, Iowa
- water as percent of area
- 0.1
- native label
- Ida County
- per capita income
- 31481
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Encyclopedic overview
Ida County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census the population was 7,005, making it the state's eighth-least populous county. The county seat is Ida Grove. The county was authorized by the Iowa Legislature in January 1851 as a packet of projected counties in unorganized territory of western Iowa. It was named after Ida Smith, the first child of European immigrants to be born in this region.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ida County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.