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Worth County
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county in Iowa, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Iowa
- Named after
- William Jenkins Worth
- Seat
- Northwood
- Largest city
- Northwood
- Total
- 402 sq mi (1,040 km )
- Land
- 400 sq mi (1,000 km )
- Water
- 1.8 sq mi (4.7 km ) 0.5%
- Estimate 2025
- 7,338
- Density
- 19/sq mi (7.2/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 2nd
- Website
- worthcountyiowa .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- William J. Worth
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Iowa
- Contains
- Northwood
- Capital
- Northwood
- Population
- 7443
- Area
- 402
- Shares border with
- Mower County
- Official website
- www.worthcounty.org
- Image
- Worth County Courthouse, Northwood.jpg
- Households
- 3199
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- topic's main category
- Category:Worth County, Iowa
- Commons category
- Worth County, Iowa
- inception
- 1851-00-00
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Worth County, Iowa
- different from
- Worth County
- water as percent of area
- 0.5
- native label
- Worth County
- per capita income
- 32381
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Encyclopedic overview
Worth County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census, the population was 7,443. The county seat is Northwood. The county was founded in 1851 and named for Major General William Jenkins Worth (1794–1849), an officer in both the Seminole War and the Mexican–American War.
Worth County is part of the Mason City, IA Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Worth County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.