Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790 to 1990

This is the electronic version of the report, "Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790 to 1990." The files are in a text only format and can be read by any word processor. If they are loaded into a spreadsheet program, some of the note fields and introduction may be truncated by your spreadsheet software.

These files can be read on a word processor or loaded into a spreadsheet program. Tabs have been used to separate columns.

There are six separate files that represent the printed publication.

PI.TXT contains the introduction to the publication and details the coverage of each of the following parts.

PII.TXT lists by census year, the total population changes for each state

Part III has been divided into three sections. It contains the population figures for counties plus notes discussing these counts.

PIIIALKS.TXT contains Alabama through Kansas data
PIIIKYOK.TXT contains Kentucky through Oklahoma
PIIIORWY.TXT contains Oregon through Wyoming
PIVFIPS.TXT contains the Federal Information Processing (FIPS) codes for each county that now exists as well as for counties that no longer exist.

This electronic version is for sale by the National Technical Information Service, U.S. Department of Commerce, 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, VA 22161; (703) 487-4650. Price $35 plus handling, refer to order number PB96-500525.

The printed version of "Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790 to 1990" is available for $35 plus handling, refer to order number PB96-119060.

The following corrections were received in September 1997 from Richard L. Forstall, mzwa85a@erols.com, the author of the database. 
POPULATION OF STATES AND COUNTIES OF THE UNITED STATES: 1790 TO 1990

Corrections

Title Page   Paula J. Schnelder  change to   Paula J. Schneider

Page ii      Acknowledgments, line 7: after "supervision;", insert:

                  and Donald Starsinic for extensive editorial
                  suggestions and assistance.

Page 114     Notes 3, 8, 11, and 12   change 1899  to  1898  (5 places)

Page 211     New York, Kings County   no significant change since 1790
                                          (not 1940)

                Suffolk County        add FIPS code  36103

                Yates County          add FIPS code  36123

             North Carolina,
                Columbus County       no significant change since 1880
                                          (not 880)
In addition, the first (1990) population for the first Louisiana parish (Acadia) is missing the customary comma.
back to small-area Census data
converted to HTML by Deane Merrill
http://parep2.lbl.gov/pdocs/feas/pop/pop1790_1990/readme.txt.html 12/8/97
dwmerrill@lbl.gov
http://parep2.lbl.gov/~merrill