Saunders County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nebraska. The population was 19,830 at the 2000 census. Its county seat is Wahoo. It is one of five Nebraska counties in the eight-county Omaha-Council Bluffs Metropolitan Statistical Area.
In the Nebraska license plate system, Saunders County is represented by the prefix 6 (the county had the sixth-largest number of vehicles registered in the state when the license plate system was establi...
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Saunders County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nebraska. The population was 19,830 at the 2000 census. Its county seat is Wahoo. It is one of five Nebraska counties in the eight-county Omaha-Council Bluffs Metropolitan Statistical Area.
In the Nebraska license plate system, Saunders County is represented by the prefix 6 (the county had the sixth-largest number of vehicles registered in the state when the license plate system was established in 1922).
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 759 square miles (1,965 km²), of which, 754 square miles (1,953 km²) of it is land and 5 square miles (13 km²) of it (0.65%) is water.
Saunders County was formed in 1856. It was named after Alvin Saunders, a governor of the earlier territory.
As of the census of 2000, there were 19,830 people, 7,498 households, and 5,443 families residing in the county. The population density was 26 people per square mile (10/km²). There were 8,266 housing units at an average...
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