Greene County, Iowa

administration
The Greene County Courthouse in Jefferson, listed on the NRHP since 1978
US state :	Iowa
Administrative headquarters :	Jefferson
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse 114 N. Chestnut Street Jefferson, IA 50129-2144
Foundation :	January 15, 1851
Made up from:	Dallas County
Area code :	001 515
Demographics
Residents :	9336 (2010)
Population density :	6.3 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1479 km²
Water surface :	7 km²
map

Website : www.co.greene.ia.us

The Greene County is a county in the US state of Iowa . The county seat is Jefferson .

geography

The county is west of the geographic center of Iowa and is traversed by the Racoon River . It has an area of 1,479 square kilometers, of which seven square kilometers are water. The following counties border Greene County:

Calhoun County		Webster County
Carroll County		Boone County
	Guthrie County	Dallas County

history

Greene

Main Street in Scranton

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1860	1374	-
1870	4627	236.8%
1880	12,727	175.1%
1890	15,797	24.1%
1900	17,820	12.8%
1910	16,023	-10.1%
1920	16,467	2.8%
1930	16,528	0.4%
1940	16,599	0.4%
1950	15,544	-6.4%
1960	14,379	-7.5%
1970	12,716	-11.6%
1980	12,119	-4.7%
1990	10,045	-17.1%
2000	10,366	3.2%
2010	9336	-9.9%
Before 1900 1900-1990 2000-2010

Greene County was formed on January 15, 1851 from former parts of Dallas County and was self-administered from 1854. It was named after General Nathanael Greene (1742–1786), a general in the Continental Army in the War of Independence .

The first settler was Truman Davis in 1849. He settled on the Racoon River.

The first courthouse, still made of wood, was built in 1856. Before that, court was held in a log cabin in southeast Jefferson. The second courthouse, made of red brick, was built in 1870. The building, still in use today, was built in 1917 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

A total of 17 sites and structures in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places .

Demographic data

According to the 2010 census , Greene County had 9,336 people in 4,311 households. The population density was 6.3 people per square kilometer.

The racial the population was composed of 97.6 percent white, 0.3 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 0.3 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 0.7 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 1.8 percent of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Statistically, 2.18 people lived in each of the 4,311 households.

23.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 56.0 percent were between 18 and 64 and 20.9 percent were 65 years or older. 50.6 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 44,476 USD . The per capita income was $ 23,727. 11.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line