Bremer

Formed December 31, 1853 (92^nd county)

Bremer County (24,988), Waverly (10,396)

The Modern style tan brick and masonry building, sitting on Bremer Avenue, 4^th Street, 1^st Avenue, and 5^th Street, was built in 1936.  Bremer Avenue is Iowa State Highway 3 in the town.  Mortimer B. Cleveland is the building architect.  The grounds feature a Statue of Liberty replica.  An earlier courthouse, also located in Waverly (the only county seat), was built in 1858.  The county was established on December 31, 1853 and named for Swedish author Fredericka Bremer.  The county was taken from parts of Winnebago County and Native American Territory as the 92^nd county.  The county seat is named for a series of novels from Sir Walter Scott. 

Bremer County government consists of a sheriff, a recorder, an attorney, a treasurer, and an assessor (executive).  It has 3 Supervisors (legislative.)  Thirty-one District Court Judges and Thirty-three Magistrates serve Bremer, Boone, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll, Cerro Gordo, Floyd, Franklin, Greene, Hamilton, Hancock, Hardin, Humboldt, Marshall, Mitchell, Pocahontas, Sac, Story, Webster, Winnebago, Worth, and Wright counties (judicial.) The county is in northeast Iowa.  Waterloo, Iowa is directly south.  The county center is 6.1 miles Northeast of Waverly nearer Bremer.  The county is surrounded clockwise by Chickasaw, Fayette, Floyd, Black, Buchanan, and Butler counties. 

The county has an area of 428 square miles.  It is 89 of 99 in the state.  It ranks 26 out of 99 in population in the state.  It has a density of 58.4 persons per square mile making it 20 out of 99 in the state.  Bremer County has 71.6% of its population in its incorporated areas.  United States Highway 63 goes north to south through the county from Chickasaw County to Black Hawk County.  United States Highway 218 enters from Chickasaw County, north and travels the western part of the county into Black Hawk County, south.  The county is a rectangle.  Waverly is in the southwest corner of the county.  Waverly is the county seat and the largest city.  It is 41.6% of the county population.  The county is pronounced BREM-UR.  This county is in the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area.