Knox County
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county in Nebraska, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Nebraska
- Named after
- Henry Knox
- Seat
- Center
- Largest city
- Creighton
- Total
- 1,140 sq mi (3,000 km )
- Land
- 1,108 sq mi (2,870 km )
- Water
- 31 sq mi (80 km ) 2.8%
- Estimate 2025
- 8,335
- Density
- 7.573/sq mi (2.924/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 3rd
- Website
- www .co .knox .ne .us
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Knox County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 8,391. Its county seat is Center. Knox County was named for Continental and U.S. Army Major General Henry Knox. In the Nebraska license plate system, Knox County is represented by the prefix 12 (it had the 12th-largest number of vehicles registered in the state when the license plate system was established in 1922).
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Knox County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.