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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.
The 1820 census contains a great deal more information than previous censuses. Enumerators listed the following data in columns, left to right: Name of the head of family of free white males under age 10; of free white males age 10 to under 16; of free white males age 16 to 18; of free white males age 16 to under 26; of free white males age 26 ...
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. Augusta is the seat of and most populous city in ...
Maine became the nation's 23rd state on March 15, 1820, following the Missouri Compromise, which allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave-holding state and Maine as a free state. However, Massachusetts still held onto the vast offshore islands of Maine after allowing it to secede, because of the high number of people on them who still ...
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]
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 .
Maine's 2nd congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Maine. Covering 27,326 square miles (70,770 km 2 ), it comprises nearly 92% of the state's total land area. The district comprises most of the land area north of the Portland and Augusta metropolitan areas.
The Maine State House in Augusta, Maine, is the state capitol of the State of Maine. The building was completed in 1832, one year after Augusta became the capital of Maine. Built using Maine granite, the State House was based on the design of the Massachusetts State House (Maine was formerly part of Massachusetts, and became a separate state in ...