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Nederland (/ ˈ n iː d ər l ən d / NEE-dər-lənd) is a city in Jefferson County, Texas, United States. The population was 18,856 at the 2020 census. [4] The city was settled in 1897 along what became Boston Avenue and was incorporated in 1940. It was settled by Dutch immigrants on land sold by the Kansas City Southern Railway.
As of the 2020 census, the population was 256,526. [1] The county seat is Beaumont. [2] Jefferson County has the highest percentage of African Americans in the state of Texas. [3] The county was established in 1835 as a municipality of Mexico, which had gained independence from Spain.
Based on U.S. Census Bureau data released in February 2011, for the first time in recent history, Texas's non-Hispanic white population is below 50% (45%) and Hispanics grew to 38%. Between 2000 and 2010, the total population growth by 20.6%, but Hispanics and Latin Americans growth by 65%, whereas non-Hispanic whites grew by only 4.2%. [52]
As the United States has grown in area and population, new states have been formed out of U.S. territories or the division of existing states. The population figures provided here reflect modern state boundaries. Shaded areas of the tables indicate census years when a territory or the part of another state had not yet been admitted as a new state.
b ^ While all Native Americans in the United States were only counted as part of the (total) U.S. population since 1890, the U.S. Census Bureau previously either enumerated or made estimates of the non-taxed Native American population (which was not counted as a part of the U.S. population before 1890) for the 1860–1880 time period.
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A population history of the United States (Cambridge University Press, 2012) excerpt [permanent dead link ] Lahey, Joanna N. "Birthing a Nation: The Effect of Fertility Control Access on the Nineteenth-Century Demographic Transition," Journal of Economic History, 74 (June 2014), 482–508. Mintz Steven and Susan Kellogg.
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