Fremont County, Iowa

administration
The Fremont County Courthouse in Sidney, listed on the NRHP since 1981
US state :	Iowa
Administrative headquarters :	Sidney
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse P.O. Box 610 Sidney, IA 51652-0610
Foundation :	1847
Made up from:	Pottawattamie County
Area code :	001 712
Demographics
Residents :	7441 (2010)
Population density :	5.6 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1338 km²
Water surface :	15 km²
map

Website : www.co.fremont.ia.us

The Fremont County is a county in the US state of Iowa . At the 2010 census , the county had 7,441 people and a population density of 5.6 people per square kilometer. The county seat is Sidney .

geography

The county is located in the extreme southwest of Iowa, bordered by Missouri to the south and Nebraska to the west , the border being formed by the Missouri River . It has an area of 1,338 square kilometers, of which 15 square kilometers are water. The following counties border Fremont County:

Cass County, Nebraska	Mills County	Montgomery County
		Page County
Otoe County, Nebraska	Atchison County, Missouri

history

Frémont

Fremont County was formed in 1847 from former parts of Pottawattamie County. It was named after John C. Frémont (1813-1890), an officer, explorer and later governor of the Arizona Territory .

A separate administration was established in 1850 in Austin, which no longer exists today. A separate court and administration building was not built. Trials took place on the premises of general store owner A. H. Argyle .

The administrative headquarters were moved to Dayton in 1851, which was renamed Sydney in the same year. In 1858 the county's first courthouse was built. In 1863 the building was damaged by an explosion, the cause of which could not be determined. In addition to a number of other theories, there is a presumption that guerrillas of the Confederate perpetrated this attack.

In 1888 it was decided to build a new courthouse. This building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

A total of 9 buildings and sites in the county are on the National Register of Historic Places.

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1850	1244	-
1860	5074	307.9%
1870	11,174	120.2%
1880	17,652	58%
1890	16,842	-4.6%
1900	18,546	10.1%
1910	15,623	-15.8%
1920	15,447	-1.1%
1930	15,533	0.6%
1940	14,645	-5.7%
1950	12,323	-15.9%
1960	10,282	-16.6%
1970	9282	-9.7%
1980	9401	1.3%
1990	8226	-12.5%
2000	8010	-2.6%
2010	7441	-7.1%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000–2010

As of the 2010 census , Fremont County had 7,441 people in 3,179 households. The population density was 5.6 inhabitants per square kilometer.

The racial the population was composed of 96.9 percent white, 0.5 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 0.3 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 0.9 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 2.5 percent of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Statistically, 2.30 people lived in the 3,179 households.

22.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 57.6 percent were between 18 and 64 and 19.6 percent were 65 years or older. 50.3 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 45,897 USD . The per capita income was $ 23,275. 10.4 percent of the population lived below the poverty line