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The 1880 United States census, conducted by the Census Office during June 1880, was the tenth United States census. [1] It was the first time that women were permitted to be enumerators . [ 2 ] The Superintendent of the Census was Francis Amasa Walker . [ 3 ]
The region and largest community are listed: Division No. 1, Newfoundland and Labrador (Avalon Peninsula-St. John's) Division No. 2, Newfoundland and Labrador (Burin Peninsula-Marystown) Division No. 3, Newfoundland and Labrador (South Coast-Channel-Port aux Basques) Division No. 4, Newfoundland and Labrador (St. George's-Stephenville)
A "shoestring annexation" is a term used for an annexation by a city, town or other municipality in which it acquires new territory that is contiguous to the existing territory but is only connected to it by a thin strip of land. [3] [4] It is sometimes called a "flagpole annexation" because the territory resembles a flagpole, in which the ...
The Oklahoma panhandle (formerly called No Man's Land, the Public Land Strip, the Neutral Strip, or Cimarron Territory) is a salient in the extreme northwestern region of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Its constituent counties are, from west to east, Cimarron County, Texas County and Beaver County. As with other salients in the United States, its ...
In 1953, amendments to the Tennessee Constitution prohibited subsequent incorporations by private act and provided for several new forms of municipal charter. Fourteen cities, including Memphis, Knoxville, and Chattanooga, three of the state's four largest cities, are "home rule cities" organized under charters approved by referendum of
The following is a list of cities in Michigan with a population of at least 5,000 based on 1880 U.S. Census data. Historic census data from 1870 and 1890 is included to reflect trends in population increases or decreases.
The name was recorded in 1880 by Ivan Petroff during the 10th Census, who reported 100 Tlingit still living there. During the Harriman Expedition of Alaska that took place in 1899 several native artifacts that were important to the neighboring populations of Cape Fox were removed and relocated to several academic institutions across the United ...
At the first census in 1790, the rural population was 3.7 million and urban only 202,000. The nation was 95% rural, and the great majority of rural residents were subsistence farmers. By 1860 the rural population had exploded to 25 million but urban had grown faster to 6 million, or 20% urban.