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The order in which the original 13 states ratified the 1787 Constitution, then the order in which the others were admitted to the Union. A state of the United States is one of the 50 constituent entities that shares its sovereignty with the federal government.
These states are presented in the order each ratified the 1787 Constitution, thus joining the present federal Union of states. The date of admission listed for other states is the official date made by Act of Congress.
This page provides a list of the 50 States in order of statehood. On December 7, 1787, Delaware became the first state to ratify the union and on August 21, 1959, Hawaii was the last state to be admitted to the union.
This is a list of the states of the United States of America and the dates on which they achieved statehood, ordered by date of admission to the union. This list excludes U.S. territories, as they have not been admitted as states, although they are constituents of the United States.
Of the 37 states admitted to the Union by Congress, all but six have been established within existing U.S. organized incorporated territories. A state that was so created might encompass all or part of a territory.
List of US states in order of admission to statehood. You can sort by alphabetical order by state or see the list by the date each state was admitted to the union.
The five tables in this report summarize key information across all 50 states: admission order and date, territorial law (if any), enabling law (if any), admission law, and the outcome of state-level ratification or referendum votes (if any).