Talk:1790 United States census

Census Info
The census information from www.census.gov/population/documentation/twps0027/tab02.txt shows NYC as 33,131 and Philadelphia as 28,522. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.123.105.3 (talk)12:49, July 5, 2007 (UTC)

Blue links
They do not work. 99.230.152.143 (talk) 01:45, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Ranking
and greater Philidelphia was 4 square miles big and had 44,096 there was no greater new york area newyork had no suburbs adn only measured at best 2 miles big so rank NYC 2nd like it rightfully was

rank Philidelpih higher than Newyork city by including northern liberties and south wark "southern liberties" both of these towns were close to one mile big and also massachusetts had 51,202 people classified as urban in 1790 so mention that also —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.211.9.198 (talk) 18:42, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

The sort of "Totals" is not a numberical sort but is done on the leading digit. 71.126.36.121 (talk) 15:33, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
I would correct but I do not know how. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.126.36.121 (talk) 15:34, 14 July 2012 (UTC)


 * I checked the table and it was working fine, sorting the content properly, numerically. It appears as if, in the course of the last five years, an anonymous hero has corrected this error for the page. CarlsonC (talk) 16:44, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

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Discrepancies
Before my one edit today, which changed only the Massachusetts figure in the "Total" column, there were the following discrepancies in the article's table of states and territories:
 * 1) Delaware: 59,094 is 2 less than the sum of the appropriate columns; this is explained in a footnote to the table.
 * 2) Massachusetts: 387,787 is 9,000 more than the sum of the appropriate columns; what is the explanation?
 * 3) New Hampshire: 141,801 is 84 less than the sum of the appropriate columns; what is the explanation?
 * 4) Vermont: 85,529 is 10 less than the sum of the appropriate columns; what is the explanation?
 * 5) National total: 3,964,905 is 32,176 more than the sum of the appropriate columns; what is the explanation?

President Lethe (talk) 22:09, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Norwalk 1790 census includes both stamford and greenwich, hence its inflated population.
If you check the source provided it shows data for 1790 with a large spike as those other towns are lumped in, before returning to its actual population of around 5000 seen in 1782 and in 1800. I suggest a note here since this distorts the importance of Norwalk in Connecticut at the time 87.210.242.77 (talk) 11:36, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

Google Books vs. Archive.org
When an item is available from both locations, which should we link to? I accidentally duplicated the Virginia one at Archive.org. I like to saw logs! (talk) 23:01, 18 April 2024 (UTC)