Kossuth County, Iowa was founded on January 15, 1851, honoring Hungary’s increasingly popular hero. Several communities within the county have named streets after Kossuth as well.

On May 2, 1961, Mrs. Béla Bachkai of the Hungarian American Federation of Washington, DC presented the county with a stylized Hungarian coat of arms, since displayed in the third-floor hallway of the county courthouse in Algona. It was termed “a present to the young people of America from the young people of Hungary.” The coat of arms had originally been sent to the University of Pittsburgh around 1936 for the Hungarian room, located in the “Cathedral of Learning” among its “rooms of nations.” Since it proved too large for the Hungarian room, it was decided to present it to Kossuth County instead.