Pottawattamie County

county in Iowa, United States of America
Administrative Area County Of Iowa Q487677

Facts

20 properties

Identity

Instance of
county of Iowa
Inception
September 21, 1848[17]
Official website
www.pottcounty.com[19]
Native label
Pottawattamie County

Population and size

Area
+2486
Elevation above sea level
+359
Population
94k (93k–94k, n=7)[20][21][22][23]
More facts +9
Contains the administrative territorial entity
Council Bluffs, Macedonia, Minden[14][15][16]
NCI Thesaurus ID
C108554
Named after
Potawatomi[13]
Number of households
+36875
Per capita income
+30466
Water as percent of area
+0
🏷️ Also known as
en Pottawattamie County en Pottawattamie County, IA en Pottawattamie County, Iowa ar مقاطعه بوتاواتامي، آيوا ar مقاطعة بوتاواتامي el Κομητεία Ποταγουάταμι es condado de Pottawattamie es Pottawattamie County fa شهرستان پوتاواتامی fi Pottawattamien piirikunta fr comté de Pottawattamie fr Pottawattamie County he מחוז פוטאוואטמי hu Pottawattamie megye it contea di Pottawattamie it Pottawattamie County ja ポッタワッタミー・カウンティ ja ポタワタミー・カウンティ ja ポタワタミー郡 ja ポッタワッタミー郡
🔖 Identifiers · 27
VIAF cluster ID
158298709
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n82088522
ArchINFORM location ID
18808
FIPS 6-4 ID
19155
Freebase ID
/m/0nrq3
GNIS Feature ID
465266
GeoNames ID
4871894
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
2000638
HASC
US.IA.PT
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INaturalist place ID
2258
J9U entity ID
987007552839105171
KnowWhereGraph entity ID
administrativeRegion.USA.19155
OBO Gazetteer ID
00194106
OpenHistoricalMap relation ID
2791813
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1425420
Our Campaigns container ID
3637
Taxonomicon ID
1805621
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10039053
UMLS CUI
C3828502
Who's on First ID
102086657
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJx4jcV88GDCVWCByYwKVC
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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 46
Shares border with 8
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Contains the administrative territorial entity 3
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Different from 2
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Summary

Pottawattamie County is a county of Iowa[1].

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Physical Characteristics

Pottawattamie County covers an area of {'amount': '+2486'}[24]. It sits at an elevation of {'amount': '+359'}[25]. Population counts include {'amount': '+93158'}[20], {'amount': '+93398'}[21], {'amount': '+93474'}[22], {'amount': '+92817'}[23], {'amount': '+92728'}[26], and {'amount': '+93671'}[27].

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Class ancestry

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  1. 9w ago · Theklan · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → September 21, 1848
    Contains the administrative territorial entity → Council Bluffs, Macedonia, Minden
    OBO Gazetteer ID → 00194106
    UMLS CUI → C3828502
    + 23 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: Tabular data series: Data:US presidential elections by county/Pottawattamie County, Iowa.tab, Link US presidential election dataset (P14687, subject: United States preside"
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