Iowa

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Background • Federal Census Summary • Counties • Links to State ResourcesBackground

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Iowa was acquired as part of the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 and formed part of Louisiana Territory, renamed Missouri Territory in 1812. Iowa became a territory in 1838 and included present-day Minnesota and the Dakotas from the Mississippi River west to the Missouri River. Iowa was admitted as a State on December 28, 1846 with substantially its present boundaries.

Federal Census Summary

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Census coverage began in 1840, when it was limited to eastern Iowa, except for two settlements in present-day Minnesota that were included in Clayton County. The northwestern part of the State was not fully covered in the census until 1860.

1790: ---	1800: ---	1810: ---	1820: ---	1830: ---	1840: 43,112	1850: 192,214	1860: 674,913
1870: 1,194,020	1880: 1,624,615	1890: 1,912,297	1900: 2,231,853	1910: 2,224,771	1920: 2,404,021	1930: 2,470,939	1940: 2,538,268
1950: 2,621,073	1960: 2,757,537	1970: 2,824,376	1980: 2,913,808	1990: 2,776,755	2000: 2,926,324

Counties
Adair Adams Allamakee Appanoose Audubon Benton Black Hawk Boone Bremer Buchanan Buena Vista Butler Calhoun Carroll Cass Cedar Cerro Gordo Cherokee Chickasaw Clarke Clay Clayton Clinton Crawford	Dallas Davis Decatur Delaware Des Moines Dickinson Dubuque Emmet Fayette Floyd Franklin Fremont Greene Grundy Guthrie Hamilton Hancock Hardin Harrison Henry Howard Humboldt Ida Iowa	Jackson Jasper Jefferson Johnson Jones Keokuk Kossuth Lee Linn Louisa Lucas Lyon Madison Mahaska Marion Marshall Mills Mitchell Monona Monroe Montgomery Muscatine O'Brien Osceola Page	Palo Alto Plymouth Pocahontas Polk Pottawattamie Poweshiek Ringgold Sac Scott Shelby Sioux Story Tama Taylor Union Van Buren Wapello Warren Washington Wayne Webster Winnebago Winneshiek Woodbury Worth Wright

State Resources

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Iowa State Biographies
... Corp., Chicago. Reprint: Iowa City, Iowa, State Historical Society, 1970. - index, 22 ... Journal of the Iowa ...
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~iabiog/stbios.htm (more from www.rootsweb.ancestry.com)

Genealogy Trails - Finding Ancestors wherever their trails led
... informed of our state and county website ... the Trail.... Our Website Updates State Sites Available for Hosting ...
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Iowa State Club
Iowa State Club   USA : Home Messages Links ... family In Bertram Iowa. Janice Harvey-Clark 1/9 ...
http://www.gencircles.com/clubs/usa/ia

Iowa Old Press - An IAGenWeb Special Project
... IN THE GREAT WAR Iowa Family Group Sheets Iowa Gravestone Photo Project Iowa History Project Iowa State Census Iowa Orphan ...
http://www.iowaoldpress.com/index.html

State Projects Page
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http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cemetery/registry.html (more from www.rootsweb.ancestry.com)

Genealogy Trails State Adoption List
... Genealogy Trails State Adoption List     STATE HOST LIST AND STATE ... Barb Ziegenmeyer bbzservice2 @ citlink.net Iowa Available for Adoption ...
http://genealogytrails.com/main/adoption.html

Family History Assistance for Primitive Baptist Churches in Iowa, Wisconsin, and Missouri
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http://www.carthage.lib.il.us/community/churches/primbap/FamHist-Iowa.html

The Political Graveyard: Miscellaneous Areas, Iowa
... The Political Graveyard: Miscellaneous Areas, Iowa   Web politicalgraveyard.com Miscellaneous Areas ...
http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/ZZ.html

National Register of Historical Places - IOWA (IA)
... Register of Historical Places - IOWA (IA) 232 years, 99 days ... 1776 getting older every day... IOWA - Select a County ...
http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/IA/state.html

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References

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Forstall, Richard L., Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790 to 1990, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC, 1996.

Perry, Marc J., et. al., Population Change and Distribution: Census 2000 Brief, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC, 2001.