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Kent County
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county in Michigan, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Michigan
- Founded
- March 2, 1831 (created), 1836 (organized)
- Named after
- James Kent
- Seat
- Grand Rapids
- Largest city
- Grand Rapids
- Total
- 872 sq mi (2,260 km )
- Land
- 847 sq mi (2,190 km )
- Water
- 25 sq mi (65 km ) 2.9%
- Estimate 2025
- 675,232
- Density
- 766/sq mi (296/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional districts
- 2nd , 3rd
- Website
- https://www.kentcountymi.gov/
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- James Kent
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Michigan
- Contains
- Grand Rapids
- Capital
- Grand Rapids
- Population
- 657974
- Area
- 2259
- Shares border with
- Barry County
- Official website
- www.accesskent.com
- Image
- Kent County Courthouse, Grand Rapids, MI.jpg
- Households
- 244795
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- category of associated people
- Category:People from Kent County, Michigan
- Commons category
- Kent County, Michigan
- topic's main category
- Category:Kent County, Michigan
- inception
- 1831-00-00
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Kent County, Michigan
- different from
- Kent County
- water as percent of area
- 2.9
- native label
- Kent County
- per capita income
- 33629
Sources (10)
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Encyclopedic overview
Kent County is located in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 Census, the county had a population of 657,974, making it the fourth most populous county in Michigan, and the largest outside of the Detroit area. Its county seat is Grand Rapids. The county was set off in 1831, and organized in 1836. It is named for New York jurist and legal scholar James Kent, who represented the Michigan Territory in its dispute with Ohio over the Toledo Strip.
Kent County is part of the Grand Rapids metropolitan area and is West Michigan's economic and manufacturing center. It is home of the Frederik Meijer Gardens, a significant cultural landmark of the Midwest. The Gerald R. Ford International Airport is the county's primary location for regional and international airline traffic.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kent County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.