Osceola County, Iowa

administration
The Osceola County Courthouse in Sibley, listed on the NRHP since 1981
US state :	Iowa
Administrative headquarters :	Sibley
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse 300 7th Street Sibley, IA 51249-1648
Foundation :	1871
Made up from:	Woodbury County
Area code :	001 712
Demographics
Residents :	6462 (2010)
Population density :	6.3 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	1035 km²
Water surface :	2 km²
map

Website : www.osceolacountyia.org

The Osceola County is a county in the US state of Iowa . At the 2010 census , the county had 6,462 people and a population density of 6.3 people per square kilometer. The county seat is Sibley , named after General GH Sibley of Minnesota .

geography

The county is located in northwest Iowa, borders Minnesota to the north and has an area of 1,035 square kilometers, of which two square kilometers are water. It borders on the following neighboring counties:

Nobles County, Minnesota		Jackson County, Minnesota
Lyon County		Dickinson County
Sioux County	O'Brien County	Clay County

history

Osceola

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1880	2219	-
1890	5574	151.2%
1900	8725	56.5%
1910	8956	2.6%
1920	10,223	14.1%
1930	10.182	-0.4%
1940	10,607	4.2%
1950	10.181	-4%
1960	10,064	-1.1%
1970	8555	-15%
1980	8371	-2.2%
1990	7267	-13.2%
2000	7003	-3.6%
2010	6462	-7.7%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000–2010 Age pyramid of Osceola County (as of 2000)

Osceola County was formed in 1871 from former parts of Woodbury County. It was named after a chief of the Seminoles, Osceola .

It is the smallest and youngest county in Iowa. In the same year the first settler, Captain Eldred Huff, came and staked out his claim. On January 1, 1872, the county government met for the first time. The first wooden courthouse was built in November of the following year and also served as a meeting room, school and church.

The second courthouse was completed in September 1903 and supplied with electricity in October 1915. The Osceola County Courthouse is the county's only structure on the National Register of Historic Places .

Demographic data

As of the 2010 census , Osceola County had 6,462 people in 2,724 households. The population density was 6.3 people per square kilometer.

The racial the population was composed of 95.2 percent white, 0.3 percent African American, 0.3 percent Native American, 0.3 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 0.8 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 6.7 percent of the population.

Statistically, 2.38 people lived in the 2,724 households.

23.1 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 57.2 percent were between 18 and 64 and 19.7 percent were 65 years or older. 49.8 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 43,889 USD . The per capita income was $ 23,063. 8.5 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.