Bremer County, Iowa

Founding: 1853 (declared in 1851)
Parent county: Unorganized territory
Namesake: Fredrika Bremer, Swedish writer
Seat: Waverly (1853–)
Land area: 435 square miles
Population (2020): 24,988
Population (historic): 4,915 (1860); 14,081 (1880); 16,305 (1900); 17,046 (1930)
Periods of population growth: pre-1860–1900; 1910–1980; 1990–2020
Subdivisions: Eight cities; 14 townships
National Register listings: 13
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 3,310 (31.8%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 68.2%
Pre-1860 housing survival rate (1940): 4.6%

Farm housing in disrepair (1950): 2.5%

Nonfarm housing in disrepair (1950): 1.3%

Average farmhouse value (1930): $2,622
Average outbuilding value (1930): $3,346
Average farmhouse size (1940): 7.4 rooms
Number of farms (1920): 2,018
Average farm size (1920): 102.5 acres
Sources of settlement: Germany, New York, Illinois, and Wisconsin
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Waverly

 
Namesake: Uncertain—perhaps Walter Scott's novel Waverley
Founding: 1853 (platting); 1854 (post office); 1859 (incorporation)
Population (2020): 10,374
Population (historic): 2,291 (1870); 2,346 (1890); 3,205 (1910); 3,652 (1930)
Periods of population growth: pre-1870–2020

Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 805 (20.7%)
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Outstanding Buildings

1. Frank Coddington Farm (c. 1870). 1307 275th Road. Jackson. Italianate.
2. St. John's Lutheran Church (1915). 1490 Tahoe Road. LeRoy. Romanesque.