Box Butte County

administration
The Box Butte County Courthouse in Alliance, listed on NRHP No. 89002212
US state :	Nebraska
Administrative headquarters :	Alliance
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse P.O. Box 678 Alliance, NE 69301-0678
Foundation :	1886
Made up from:	Dawes County
Area code :	001 308
Demographics
Residents :	11,308 (2010)
Population density :	4.1 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	2792 km²
Water surface :	7 km²
map

Website : www.co.box-butte.ne.us

The Box Butte County is a county in the US state of Nebraska . The county seat is Alliance , which was named after the city of the same name Alliance in Ohio .

geography

The county is located almost in the extreme northwest of Nebraska, about 50 km to the west from Wyoming , about 60 km to the north from South Dakota and has an area of 2,792 square kilometers, of which 7 square kilometers are water. It borders on the following counties:

	Dawes County
Sioux County		Sheridan County
Scotts Bluff County	Morrill County

history

Box Butte County was formed in 1886 on what was once Dawes County's territory. It was named after a cuboid (ger .: box shaped ) monolith (ger .: Butte ) near the city of Alliance.

Four buildings and sites in the county are on the National Register of Historic Places (as of February 10, 2018).

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1890	5494	-
1900	5572	1.4%
1910	6131	10%
1920	8407	37.1%
1930	11,861	41.1%
1940	10,736	-9.5%
1950	12,279	14.4%
1960	11,688	-4.8%
1970	10.094	-13.6%
1980	13,696	35.7%
1990	13,130	-4.1%
2000	12,158	-7.4%
2010	11.308	-7%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 + 2010 Box Butte County's age pyramid (as of 2000)

Central Park Fountain , listed on the NRHP

Alliance Commercial Historic District , listed on the NRHP

As of the 2000 census , Box Butte County had 12,158 people in 4,780 households and 3,298 families. The population density was 4 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 90.84 percent white, 0.37 percent African American, 2.74 percent Native American, 0.53 percent Asian, 0.01 percent of residents from the Pacific island area and 3.55 percent from other ethnic groups Groups; 1.96 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any of the above mentioned groups were 7.65 percent of the population.

Of the 4,780 households, 35.6 percent had children and young people under the age of 18 living with them. 57.7 percent were married couples living together, 8.3 percent were single mothers, 31.0 percent were non-families, 27.5 percent were single households and 11.1 percent had people aged 65 years or over. The average household size was 2.50 and the average family size was 3.05.

For the entire county, the population was composed of 28.1 percent of residents under 18 years of age, 7.4 percent between 18 and 24 years of age, 26.8 percent between 25 and 44 years of age, and 23.1 percent between 45 and 64 years of age 14.6 percent were 65 years of age or over. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females there were statistically 99.2 males. For every 100 women aged 18 or over there were 94.6 men.

The median income for a household in the city was $ 39,366 , and the median income for a family was $ 46,670. Males had a median income of $ 36,966 versus $ 21,762 for females. The per capita income was $ 18,407. 9.7 percent of families and 10.7 percent of the population are below the poverty line. Of these, 13.7 percent were children or adolescents under 18 years of age and 11.0 percent were people over 65 years of age.