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Jefferson County
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county in Wisconsin, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Wisconsin
- Named after
- Thomas Jefferson
- Seat
- Jefferson
- Largest city
- Watertown
- Total
- 583 sq mi (1,510 km )
- Land
- 556 sq mi (1,440 km )
- Water
- 26 sq mi (67 km ) 4.5%
- Estimate 2025
- 86,505
- Density
- 153/sq mi (59.0/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 5th
- Website
- www .jeffersoncountywi .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Thomas Jefferson
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Wisconsin
- Contains
- Jefferson
- Capital
- Jefferson
- Population
- 84900
- Area
- 1509
- Shares border with
- Rock County
- Official website
- www.jeffersoncountywi.gov
- Image
- JeffersonCountyCourthouseWIS26.jpg
- Households
- 33349
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- inception
- 1836-00-00
- water as percent of area
- 4.5
- native label
- Jefferson County
- per capita income
- 33461
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Encyclopedic overview
Jefferson County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 84,900. Its county seat is Jefferson. Jefferson County comprises the Watertown-Fort Atkinson, WI Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Milwaukee-Racine-Waukesha, WI Combined Statistical Area.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jefferson County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.