Thayer County
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county in Nebraska, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Nebraska
- Established
- May 9, 1871
- Named after
- John Milton Thayer
- County seat
- Hebron
- Largest city
- Hebron
- Total
- 575 sq mi (1,490 km )
- Land
- 574 sq mi (1,490 km )
- Water
- 1.2 sq mi (3.1 km ) 0.2%
- Highest elevation
- 1,545 ft (471 m)
- Lowest elevation
- 1,142 ft (348 m)
- Estimate 2021
- 4,913
- Density
- 8.8/sq mi (3.4/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Area code
- 402/531
- Website
- thayercountyne.gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- John Milton Thayer
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Nebraska
- Contains
- Hebron
- Capital
- Hebron
- Population
- 5034
- Area
- 1490
- Shares border with
- Washington County
- Official website
- www.thayercounty.ne.gov
- Image
- Thayer County, Nebraska courthouse from E 1.JPG
- Households
- 2247
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- water as percent of area
- 0.2
- native label
- Thayer County
- Commons category
- Thayer County, Nebraska
- topic's main category
- Category:Thayer County, Nebraska
- inception
- 1872-00-00
- different from
- Thayer
- per capita income
- 30568
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Thayer County, Nebraska
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Encyclopedic overview
Thayer County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 5,034. Its county seat is Hebron. The county was created in 1856 and originally named Jefferson County. It was organized in 1870-1871 and renamed for General and Governor John Milton Thayer.
In the Nebraska license plate system, Thayer County is represented by the prefix 32 (it had the thirty-second-largest number of vehicles registered in the state when the license plate system was established in 1922).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thayer County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.