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Shelby County
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county in Iowa, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Iowa
- Founded
- January 15, 1851
- Named after
- Isaac Shelby
- Seat
- Harlan
- Largest city
- Harlan
- Total
- 598 sq mi (1,550 km )
- Land
- 598 sq mi (1,550 km )
- Water
- 0.6 sq mi (1.6 km ) 0.1%
- Estimate 2025
- 11,689
- Density
- 19.6/sq mi (7.58/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 4th
- Website
- shelbycounty .iowa .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Isaac Shelby
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Iowa
- Contains
- Harlan
- Capital
- Harlan
- Population
- 11746
- Area
- 1532
- Shares border with
- Harrison County
- Official website
- www.shco.org
- Image
- West side of the Shelby County Courthouse, Harlan, IA.jpg
- Households
- 5066
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- Commons category
- Shelby County, Iowa
- topic's main category
- Category:Shelby County, Iowa
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Shelby County, Iowa
- inception
- 1851-00-00
- different from
- Shelby County
- water as percent of area
- 0.1
- native label
- Shelby County
- per capita income
- 34617
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Encyclopedic overview
Shelby County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census, the population was 11,746. The county seat and the largest city is Harlan. Its name is in honor of Isaac Shelby, the first Governor of Kentucky.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shelby County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.