Lafayette County
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county in Wisconsin, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Wisconsin
- Named after
- Marquis de Lafayette
- Seat
- Darlington
- Largest city
- Darlington
- Total
- 635 sq mi (1,640 km )
- Land
- 634 sq mi (1,640 km )
- Water
- 1.0 sq mi (2.6 km ) 0.2%
- Estimate 2025
- 17,478
- Density
- 27.6/sq mi (10.7/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 2nd
- Website
- www .lafayettecountywi .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Wisconsin
- Contains
- Blanchard
- Capital
- Darlington
- Population
- 16611
- Area
- 1644
- Shares border with
- Green County
- Official website
- www.co.lafayette.wi.gov
- Image
- LafayetteCC.jpg
- Households
- 6777
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- Commons category
- Lafayette County, Wisconsin
- topic's main category
- Category:Lafayette County, Wisconsin
- inception
- 1846-00-00
- different from
- Lafayette Parish
- water as percent of area
- 0.2
- native label
- Lafayette County
- per capita income
- 28843
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Encyclopedic overview
Lafayette County, sometimes spelled La Fayette County, is a county located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It was part of the Wisconsin Territory at the time of its founding. As of the 2020 census, the population was 16,611. Its county seat is Darlington. The county was named in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette, the French general who rendered assistance to the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War. The county is considered a high-farming concentration county by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, meaning at least 20 percent of its earnings came from agriculture.
The courthouse scenes from the 2009 film Public Enemies were filmed at the Lafayette County Courthouse in Darlington.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lafayette County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.