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Daviess County
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county in Indiana, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Indiana
- Founded
- February 2, 1818
- Named after
- Joseph Hamilton Daveiss
- Seat
- Washington
- Largest town
- Washington
- Total
- 436.87 sq mi (1,131.5 km )
- Land
- 429.49 sq mi (1,112.4 km )
- Water
- 7.39 sq mi (19.1 km ) 1.69%
- Estimate 2025
- 34,209
- Density
- 79.7/sq mi (30.8/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 8th
- Website
- www .daviess .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Joseph Hamilton Daveiss
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Indiana
- Contains
- Washington
- Capital
- Washington
- Population
- 33381
- Area
- 1131
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Pike County
- Official website
- www.daviess.org
- Image
- Monument at the Daviess County Courthouse in Washington.jpg
- Households
- 11354
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- topic's main category
- Category:Daviess County, Indiana
- Commons category
- Daviess County, Indiana
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Daviess County, Indiana
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Daviess County, Indiana
- inception
- 1816-12-24
- different from
- Davison County
- water as percent of area
- 1.69
- native label
- Daviess County
- per capita income
- 23600
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Encyclopedic overview
Daviess County /ˈdeɪviːz/ is a county in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 33,381. The county seat is Washington.
About 15% of the county's population is Amish of Swiss origin, as of 2017.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Daviess County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.