Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-2000
Census (County and State)
Sources: U.S. Bureau of the Census. Seventh Decennial Census of the United States, 1850. The Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. (Washington, D.C.: Robert Armstrong, Public Printer, 1853).
U.S. Bureau of the Census. Seventh Decennial Census of the United States, 1850. Statistical View
of the United States. (Washington, D.C.: Beverley Tucker, Senate Printer, 1854).
U.S. Bureau of the Census. Original Worksheets of the Urban Population Prepared for the 1930 Federal Census. (n.d.).
Variables 4, 7-105: U.S. Bureau of the Census [1853], Table 1.
Variables 5-6: U.S. Bureau of the Census [n.d.].
Variables 106-115: U.S. Bureau of the Census [1853], Table 4.
Variables 116-139: U.S. Bureau of the Census [1853], Table 7.
Variables 140-148: U.S. Bureau of the Census [1853], Table 8.
Variables 149-157: U.S. Bureau of the Census [1853], Table 9.
Variables 158-165: U.S. Bureau of the Census [1853], Table 11.
Variables 167-178: U.S. Bureau of the Census [1853], Table 13.
Variables 179-186: U.S. Bureau of the Census [1854], Unnumbered Table.
Variables 187-258: U.S. Bureau of the Census [1853], Table 14.
Variables 259-260: Unpublished data furnished by Lee A. Craig, Dept. of Economics, North Carolina State University. Variables 261-325: Calculated from other variables.
Sources: U.S. Bureau of the Census. Seventh Decennial Census of the United States, 1850. The Seventh Census of the United States 1850. (Washington, D.C.: Robert Armstrong, Public Printer, 1853).
U.S. Bureau of the Census. Seventh Decennial Census of the United States, 1850. Statistical View of the United States. (Washington, D.C.: Beverley Tucker, Senate Printer, 1854).
U.S. Bureau of the Census. Eighth Decennial Census of the United States, 1860. Agriculture in the United States in 1860. (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1864).
U.S. Bureau of the Census. Eighth Decennial Census of the United States, 1860. Statistics of the United States, (including Mortality, property, etc.) in 1860. (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1866).
U.S. Bureau of the Census. Ninth Decennial Census of the United States, 1870. Volume I. The Statistics of the Population of the United States. (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1872).
U.S. Bureau of the Census. Tenth Decennial Census of the United States, 1880. Volume II. Report on the Manufactures of the United States. (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1883). Variables 3-26: U.S. Bureau of the Census [1853], Tables XVI & XVII, p. xxxviii. Variables 27-93: U.S. Bureau of the Census [1853], Table XV.
Variables 94-96: U.S. Bureau of the Census [1872], Table XX.
Variables 97-108: U.S. Bureau of the Census [1864], "Recapitulation--1850".
Variables 109-119: U.S. Bureau of the Census [1853], Table LI.
Variables 120-125: U.S. Bureau of the Census [1854], Table CLXXV.
Variables 126-131: U.S. Bureau of the Census [1866], "Miscellaneous Statistics".
Variable 132: U.S. Bureau of the Census [1866], Table 2.
Variables 133-139: U.S. Bureau of the Census [1883], Table I.
Variables 140-147: U.S. Bureau of the Census [1854], Table CXCV.
Variables 148-152: U.S. Bureau of the Census [1854], Table CLXXXIII.
Variables 153-184: U.S. Bureau of the Census [1853], Table XLIX.
Variables 185-196: U.S. Bureau of the Census [1853], Table XLVII.
Census of Agriculture (County and State)
Sources: U.S. Bureau of the Census. Seventh Decennial Census of the United States, 1850. The Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. (Washington, D.C.: Robert Armstrong, Public Printer, 1853).
U.S. Bureau of the Census. Seventh Decennial Census of the United States, 1850. Statistical View of the United States. (Washington, D.C.: Beverley Tucker, Senate Printer, 1854).
Lee A Craig. To Sow One Acre More: Childbearing and Farm Productivity in the Antebellum North.
(Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993).
Jeremy Atack and Fred Bateman. To Their Own Soil: Agriculture in the Antebellum North. (Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1987).
Variables 5-50: U.S. Bureau of the Census [1853], Table XI.
Variable 4: U.S. Bureau of the Census [1854], Unnumbered Table.
Variables 51-86: Craig [1993], Table A.1. Atack & Bateman[1987], Tables 13.1 to 13.5
Variables 87-116: Calculated from quantities and prices.