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Swift County
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county in Minnesota, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Minnesota
- Founded
- February 18, 1870
- Named after
- Henry Adoniram Swift
- Seat
- Benson
- Largest city
- Benson
- Total
- 752 sq mi (1,950 km )
- Land
- 742 sq mi (1,920 km )
- Water
- 8.82 sq mi (22.8 km ) 1.3%
- Estimate 2025
- 9,763
- Density
- 13.3/sq mi (5.1/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 7th
- Website
- swiftcounty .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Swift County is a county in the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,838. Its county seat is Benson.
Swift County is in west central Minnesota and consists of 757 square miles (2,000 km) with three tiers of seven townships each.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Swift County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.