Hooker County

Also known as Hooker County, Nebraska, Hooker County, NE

county in Nebraska, United States

Key facts

Country: United States
State: Nebraska
Founded: March 29, 1889
Named after: Joseph Hooker
Seat: Mullen
Largest village: Mullen
Total: 721.401 sq mi (1,868.42 km )
Land: 720.966 sq mi (1,867.29 km )
Water: 0.535 sq mi (1.39 km ) 0.07%
Density: 0.986/sq mi (0.381/km )
Time zone: UTC−7 ( Mountain )
Summer dst: UTC−6 ( MDT )
Congressional district

Article

Hooker County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 census, the population was 711, and was estimated to be 686 in 2025. The county seat and the largest village is Mullen, which (as of 2019) is the county's only community of substantial size.

In the Nebraska license plate system, Hooker County was represented by the prefix "93" (as it had the smallest number of registered vehicles out of the state's 93 counties of vehicles registered in the state when the license plate system was established in 1922).