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Rice County
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county in Minnesota, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Minnesota
- Founded
- March 5, 1853
- Named after
- Henry Mower Rice
- Seat
- Faribault
- Largest city
- Faribault
- Total
- 516 sq mi (1,340 km )
- Land
- 496 sq mi (1,280 km )
- Water
- 20 sq mi (52 km ) 3.9%
- Estimate 2025
- 69,939
- Density
- 135.3/sq mi (52.2/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional districts
- 1st , 2nd
- Website
- www .ricecountymn .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Henry Mower Rice
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Minnesota
- Capital
- Faribault
- Population
- 67097
- Area
- 1337
- Shares border with
- Goodhue County
- Official website
- www.co.rice.mn.us
- Image
- Rice County Courthouse.jpg
- Households
- 23183
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- Commons category
- Rice County, Minnesota
- topic's main category
- Category:Rice County, Minnesota
- inception
- 1853-03-05
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Rice County, Minnesota
- different from
- Rice County
- water as percent of area
- 3.9
- native label
- Rice County
- per capita income
- 31792
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Encyclopedic overview
Rice County is a county located in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 67,097. Its county seat is Faribault.
Rice County comprises the Faribault-Northfield, MN Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI Combined Statistical Area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rice County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.