Hayes County, Nebraska

Hayes County
Hayes County
County
	Hayes County courthouse in Hayes Center
	Location within the U.S. state of Nebraska
	Nebraska's location within the U.S.
	Coordinates: 40°32′N 101°04′W / 40.53°N 101.06°W
Country	United States
State	Nebraska
Founded	1877 (founded); February 19, 1884 (organized)
Named for	Rutherford B. Hayes
Seat	Hayes Center
Largest village	Palisade
Area
• Total	713 sq mi (1,850 km2)
• Land	713 sq mi (1,850 km2)
• Water	0.2 sq mi (0.5 km2) 0.03%
Population (2020)
• Total	856
• Density	1.2/sq mi (0.5/km2)
Time zone	UTC−6 (Central)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−5 (CDT)
Congressional district	3rd
Website	www.hayescounty.ne.gov

Hayes County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 856.^[1] Its county seat is Hayes Center.^[2] The county was created in 1877, and was organized in 1884.^[3]^[4]^[5] It was named for Rutherford B. Hayes, the US President at the time of the county's creation.^[6] In the Nebraska license plate system, Hayes County is represented by the prefix 79 (it had the seventy-ninth-largest number of vehicles registered in the county when the license plate system was established in 1922).

^ "Hayes County, Nebraska". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved June 19, 2023.
^ "Find a County". National Association of Counties. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
^ Fitzpatrick, Lilian Linder (1925). Nebraska Place-Names. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Studies in Language, Literature, and Criticism. p. 72. Retrieved December 15, 2014.
^ "Nebraska Historic Buildings Survey Reconnaissance Survey Final Report of Hayes County, Nebraska" (PDF). Nebraska State Historical Society. March 1, 1991. Archived from the original on November 16, 2006. Retrieved December 15, 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
^ "Hayes County". Nebraska Association of County Officials. Retrieved December 15, 2014.
^ Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Govt. Print. Off. p. 153.