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Brown County
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county in Ohio, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Ohio
- Founded
- March 1, 1818
- Named after
- General Jacob Brown
- Seat
- Georgetown
- Largest village
- Georgetown
- Total
- 493 sq mi (1,280 km )
- Land
- 490 sq mi (1,300 km )
- Water
- 3.4 sq mi (8.8 km ) 0.7%
- Estimate 2025
- 44,397
- Density
- 89/sq mi (34/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 2nd
- Website
- www .browncountyohio .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Brown County Ohio Government Portal - Brown County Ohio Government
The official site of the County of Brown, Ohio with key topics as well as news and information about Brown County Ohio government.
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Cincinnati metropolitan area
- Named after
- Jacob Brown
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Ohio
- Contains
- Aberdeen
- Capital
- Georgetown
- Population
- 43676
- Area
- 1283
- Shares border with
- Bracken County
- Official website
- www.browncountyohio.gov
- Image
- Brown County Courthouse in Georgetown from southwest.jpg
- Households
- 17811
- Licence plate code
- 08
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- category of associated people
- Category:People from Brown County, Ohio
- Commons category
- Brown County, Ohio
- topic's main category
- Category:Brown County, Ohio
- inception
- 1818-03-01
- different from
- Brown County
- water as percent of area
- 0.7
- native label
- Brown County
- per capita income
- 28320
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Encyclopedic overview
Brown County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 43,676. The county seat is Georgetown. The county was created in 1818 and is named for Major General Jacob Brown, an officer in the War of 1812 who was wounded at the Battle of Lundy's Lane. Brown County is part of the Cincinnati–Middletown, OH–KY–IN Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Brown County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.