Minnesota

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

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Northeastern Minnesota, east of the Mississippi River and a line drawn northward from its source to Canada, was part of the Northwest Territory (1787) and later of Indiana Territory (1800), Illinois Territory (1809), Michigan Territory (1818), and Wisconsin Territory (1838). Most of the rest of the State was part of the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, and included in Louisiana Territory (1805), renamed Missouri Territory in 1812. Both these parts of the present State were included in Michigan Territory from 1834 to 1836, and then in Wisconsin Territory until 1838. The portion west of the Mississippi then became part of Iowa Territory, until Minnesota Territory was established in 1849, including the whole present-day State and the Dakotas generally east of the Missouri River. Minnesota was admitted as a State on May 11, 1858 with essentially its present boundaries.

Federal Census Summary

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There was only limited census coverage of the present area of the State prior to 1850. In 1830 a few persons near Lake Superior may have been enumerated in Chippewa County, Michigan Territory; in 1840 some persons in northeastern Minnesota were enumerated in St. Croix County, Wisconsin Territory, and two settlements on the Mississippi River were enumerated as part of Clayton County, Iowa Territory. In 1850 coverage of Minnesota Territory did not extend beyond the present State except for a few settlers near the Red River in what is now North Dakota. In 1860 the census covered virtually the whole State.

1790: ---	1800: ---	1810: ---	1820: ---	1830: ---	1840: ---	1850: 6,077	1860: 172,023
1870: 439,706	1880: 780,773	1890: 1,310,283	1900: 1,751,394	1910: 2,075,708	1920: 2,387,125	1930: 2,563,953	1940: 2,792,300
1950: 2,982,483	1960: 3,413,864	1970: 3,804,971	1980: 4,075,970	1990: 4,375,099	2000: 4,919,479

Counties
Aitkin Anoka Becker Beltrami Benton Big Stone Blue Earth Brown Buchanan Carlton Carver Cass Chippewa Chisago Clay Clearwater Cook Cottonwood Crow Wing Dakota Dodge Douglas Faribault Fillmore	Freeborn Goodhue Grant Hennepin Houston Hubbard Isanti Itasca Jackson Kanabec Kandiyohi Kittson Koochiching Lac qui Parle (old) Lac qui Parle Lake Lake of the Woods Le Sueur Lincoln Lyon McLeod Mahkahta Mahnomen Manomin	Marshall Martin Meeker Mille Lacs Monongalia Morrison Mower Murray Nicollet Nobles Norman Olmsted Otter Tail Pennington Pierce Pine Pipestone Polk Pope Ramsey Red Lake Redwood Renville	Rice Rock Roseau St. Louis Scott Sherburne Sibley Stearns Steele Stevens Swift Todd Traverse Wabasha Wadena Wahnata Waseca Washington Watonwan Wilkin Winona Wright Yellow Medicine

State Resources

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State Projects Page
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Southwest Minnesota State University
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National Register of Historical Places - MINNESOTA (MN)
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Minnesota 1895 Map Addendum
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Minnesota World War II Casualties Army and Air Force
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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.