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Kossuth County

county in Iowa, United States of America
Administrative Area County of Iowa Q113201

Facts

19 properties

Identity

Instance of
county of Iowa
Inception
January 15, 1851[16]
Official website
www.co.kossuth.ia.us[18]
Native label
Kossuth County

Location

Country
United States[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 43.205°, -94.206°[17]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Iowa[2]
Shares border with
Martin County, Humboldt County, Faribault County, Emmet County, Palo Alto County, Pocahontas County, Winnebago County, Hancock County, Wright County[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]

Population and size

Area
2,524
Population
15k (15k–16k, n=7)[19][20][21][22][23]
More facts +9
Capital
Algona[4]
Contains the administrative territorial entity
Algona[15]
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: United States/Iowa/Kossuth County
List of monuments
National Register of Historic Places listings in Iowa
NCI Thesaurus ID
C108531
Named after
Lajos Kossuth[14]
Number of households
6,575 (2020)
Per capita income
31,475 (2020)
Water as percent of area
0.2
🏷️ Also known as
en Kossuth County en Kossuth County, IA en Kossuth County, Iowa ar مقاطعه كوسوث، آيوا ar مقاطعة كوسوث el Κομητεία Κόσουθ es Condado de Kossuth (Iowa) es condado de Kossuth fa شهرستان کاسوت fi Kossuthin piirikunta fr comté de Kossuth he מחוז קושוט hu Kossuth megye it contea di Kossuth ja コスース郡 ko 코수스군 pl Hrabstwo Kossuth ro Comitatul Kossuth ru Коссут tr Kossuth County
🔖 Identifiers · 26
VIAF cluster ID
152451417
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n81035030
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Kossuth County IA Courthouse.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
18785
Ballotpedia ID
Kossuth_County,_Iowa
FIPS 6-4 ID
19109
Freebase ID
/m/0nrzl
GADM ID
USA.16.55_1
GNIS Feature ID
465243
GeoNames ID
4863753
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
2000615
HASC
US.IA.KO
Show all 26 identifiers +14
INaturalist place ID
1813
J9U entity ID
987007555039605171
KnowWhereGraph entity ID
administrativeRegion.USA.19109
OBO Gazetteer ID
00193997
OpenHistoricalMap relation ID
2791847
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1790343
Our Campaigns container ID
3614
Taxonomicon ID
1805598
Topic's main category
Category:Kossuth County, Iowa
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10038965
UMLS CUI
C3829365
Who's on First ID
102086311
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["AdministrativeDivision", {"KossuthCounty", "Iowa", "UnitedStates"}]
Yale LUX ID
place/cbc5e92f-e5cc-4720-b2a9-20446cbddf53
📚 Sources · 1
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Elevation above sea levelP2044
356 m 2026-09-26 A/ADM2 · US GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
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Located in time zoneP421
America/Chicago 2026-09-26 A/ADM2 · US GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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GeoNames
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20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
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CC BY 4.0
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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 41
Algona, Bancroft, Burt, Fenton, Lakota, Ledyard, Lone Rock, Titonka +33 more
Shares border with 9
Faribault County, Emmet County, Hancock County, Humboldt County, Martin County, Palo Alto County, Pocahontas County, Winnebago County +1 more
← Shares border with 9
Faribault County, Emmet County, Hancock County, Humboldt County, Martin County, Palo Alto County, Pocahontas County, Winnebago County +1 more
← Category combines topics 3
Category:People from Kossuth County, Iowa, Category:Populated places in Kossuth County, Iowa, Category:Geography of Kossuth County, Iowa
Capital 1
Algona
Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Algona
Country 1
United States
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Iowa
Named after 1
Lajos Kossuth
Topic's main category 1
Category:Kossuth County, Iowa
← Capital of 1
Algona
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Kossuth County, Iowa
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Iowa
← FactGrid item ID 1
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Summary

Kossuth County is a county of Iowa[1].

Body

Physical Characteristics

Kossuth County covers an area of {'amount': '+2524'}[24]. Population counts include {'amount': '+15543'}[19], {'amount': '+15514'}[20], {'amount': '+15367'}[21], {'amount': '+15352'}[22], {'amount': '+15321'}[23], and {'amount': '+15165'}[25].

Related Entities

Duisans Iowa Lajos Kossuth United States

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

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  1. 10w ago · Theklan · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → January 15, 1851
    Contains the administrative territorial entity → Algona
    OBO Gazetteer ID → 00193997
    UMLS CUI → C3829365
    + 20 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: Tabular data series: Data:US presidential elections by county/Kossuth County, Iowa.tab, Link US presidential election dataset (P14687, subject: United States presidential"
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