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Lake County
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county in Oregon, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Oregon
- Founded
- October 24, 1874
- Named after
- Multiple lakes
- Seat
- Lakeview
- Largest city
- Lakeview
- Total
- 8,358 sq mi (21,650 km )
- Land
- 8,139 sq mi (21,080 km )
- Water
- 219 sq mi (570 km ) 2.6%
- Estimate 2025
- 8,187
- Density
- 1/sq mi (0.39/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−8 ( Pacific )
- Summer dst
- UTC−7 ( PDT )
- Congressional district
- 2nd
- Website
- www .lakecountyor .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- lake
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Oregon
- Contains
- Lakeview
- Capital
- Lakeview
- Population
- 8160
- Area
- 21648
- Shares border with
- Harney County
- Official website
- www.lakecountyor.org
- Image
- Lake County, Oregon courthouse.jpg
- Households
- 3533
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- Commons category
- Lake County, Oregon
- topic's main category
- Category:Lake County, Oregon
- inception
- 1874-00-00
- different from
- Lake County
- water as percent of area
- 2.6
- native label
- Lake County
- topic has template
- Template:Lake County, Oregon
- per capita income
- 26299
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Lake County, Oregon
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
Lake County is one of the 36 counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,160. Its county seat is Lakeview. The county is named after the many lakes found within its boundaries, including Lake Abert, Summer Lake, Hart Lake, and Goose Lake.
Lake County is in the high desert region known as the Oregon Outback, on the northwestern edge of the Great Basin. The county is generally divided between the communities around Lakeview and Paisley to the south and the communities around Christmas Valley, Fort Rock, and Silver Lake to the north.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lake County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.