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The 1820 United States census was the fourth census conducted in the United States. It was conducted on August 7, 1820. The 1820 census included six new states: Louisiana, Indiana, Mississippi, Illinois, Alabama and Maine. There has been a district wide loss of 1820 census records for Arkansas Territory, Missouri Territory, [1] and New Jersey.
Augusta [a] is the capital city of the U.S. state of Maine. The city's population was 18,899 at the 2020 United States census , [ 5 ] making it the 12th-most populous city in Maine , and third-least populous state capital in the United States after Montpelier, Vermont , and Pierre, South Dakota .
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The mean population center of Maine is located in Kennebec County, just east of Augusta. [51] The Greater Portland metropolitan area is the most densely populated with nearly 40% of Maine's population. [52] This area spans three counties and includes many farms and wooded areas; the 2016 population of Portland proper was 66,937. [53]
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.
Smith, Joshua M. Making Maine: Statehood and the War of 1812 (2022), Amherst, MA, University of Massachusetts Press; Peirce, Neal R. The New England States: People, Politics, and Power in the Six New England States (1976) pp 362–420; updated in Neal R. Peirce and Jerry Hagstrom, The Book of America: Inside the Fifty States Today (1983) pp 208 ...
The District of Maine was the governmental designation for what is now the U.S. state of Maine from October 25, 1780 to March 15, 1820, when it was admitted to the Union as the 23rd state. The district was a part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and before American independence had been part of the British province of Massachusetts Bay .
1820 map of Maine. The Treaty of Paris (1783) ended the Revolutionary War but did not clearly determine the boundary between British North America (Quebec and New Brunswick) and the United States. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts thereafter began issuing land grants in its District of Maine, including areas to which the British had already ...