Hayes County
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county in Nebraska, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Nebraska
- Founded
- February 19, 1877 (created), 1884 (organized)
- Named after
- Rutherford B. Hayes
- Seat
- Hayes Center
- Largest village
- Palisade
- Total
- 713.282 sq mi (1,847.39 km )
- Land
- 713.065 sq mi (1,846.83 km )
- Water
- 0.217 sq mi (0.56 km ) 0.03%
- Density
- 1.20/sq mi (0.463/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 3rd
- Website
- hayescounty.ne.gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Rutherford B. Hayes
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Nebraska
- Contains
- Hayes Center
- Capital
- Hayes Center
- Population
- 856
- Area
- 1848
- Shares border with
- Frontier County
- Official website
- www.hayescounty.ne.gov
- Image
- Hayes County, Nebraska courthouse from SE 1.JPG
- Households
- 389
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- inception
- 1877-00-00
- Commons category
- Hayes County, Nebraska
- topic's main category
- Category:Hayes County, Nebraska
- different from
- Hays County
- water as percent of area
- 0.03
- native label
- Hayes County
- per capita income
- 30768
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Encyclopedic overview
Hayes County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 census, the population was 856, and was estimated to be 821 in 2025. The county seat is Hayes Center and the largest village is Palisade.
In the Nebraska license plate system, Hayes County was represented by the prefix "79" (as it had the 79th-largest number of vehicles registered in the state when the license plate system was established in 1922).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hayes County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.