POPULATION.
YEARS | CITY | COUNTY | STATE |
1810 | ------ | ------- | 4,702 |
1820 | ----- | ------- | 8,896 |
1830 | ------ | ------- | 31,639 |
1834 | ------ | ------- | 87,273 |
1837 | ------ | 2,022 | 175,025 |
1840 | ------ | 2,587 | 212,267 |
1845 | *1,510 | 6,153 | 302,521 |
1850 | 2,686 | 12,016 | 397,654 |
1854 | 4,278 | 17,786 | 507,521 |
1860 | 8,085 | 30,743 | 749,113 |
1864 | +9,770 | 33,477 | 803,661 |
1870 | 16,507 | 50,540 | 1,184,282 |
1874 | 25,923 | 62,671 | 1,334,031 |
1880 | 32,016 | 73,253 | 1,636,937 |
1884 | 41,898 | 84,600 | 1,853,658 |
1890 | 64,147 | 109,935 | 2,089,792 |
The 1860 census shows 125 colored persons and one Indian in the county; that of 1870, 167 colored and nine Indians; that of 1880, 513 colored, two Chinese and one Indian. Probably the enumerators did not hunt very carefully for Indians and Chinamen. |
POPULATION BY NATIVITIES.
YEARS | CITY
NATIVE / FOREIGN |
COUNTY
NATIVE / FOREIGN |
1800 | ----- / ------ | 24,196 / 6,520 |
1870 | 10,782 / 5,725 | 38,309 / 12,094 |
1880 | 22,016 / 10,000 | 55,833 / 17,420 |
1884 | ----- / ----- | 60,790 / 23,155 |
POPULATION BY SEX.
YEARS | CITY
MALES / FEMALES |
COUNTY
MALES / FEMALES |
1850 | 1,346 /1,340 | 6,371 / 5,645 |
1854 | 2,140 / 2,104 | 9,273 / 8,513 |
1860 | 4,097 / 3,988 | 16,026 / 14,564 |
1864 | 4,651 / 5,119 | 16,880 / 16,567 |
1870 | 8,345 / 8,163 | 26,166 / 24,244 |
1874 | 13,207 / 12,716 | 32,576 / 30,095 |
1880 | ----- / ------ | 38,014 / 35,239 |
1884 | 21,136 / 20,762 | 43,467 / 41,133 |
The census reports have some curious features, which may possibly puzzle
future readers to understand. According to them there were in Michigan
in 1854, 616 more married men than married women. In 1864 there were 2,689
more married women than married men. In 1874 the married males outnumbered
the married females by 1,611, and in 1884 the preponderance of married
males over married females was 3,045. The discrepancy in 1864 may doubtless
be attributed to the war, but that of 1884 is not so easily accounted for.
It is probably the result of difficulties in enumerating traveling men
and others absent from home at the time of taking the census, being liable
to be counted both at their homes and wherever they may happen to meet
the enumerator.
In 1810 there were twenty-four slaves in the Territory of Michigan. KENT COUNTY VILLAGES---POPULATION. Casnovia lies partly in Tyrone township, Kent county, and partly in Casnovia, Muskegon county. Cedar Springs lies in two towns, Solon and Nelson. Lisbon is partly in Sparta, Kent county, and partly in Chester, Ottawa county. Rockford is at the corner of the four towns, Courtland, Plainfield, Algoma and Cannon, lying party in each. Lowell (originally named Dansville, but changed to Lowell in 1857) is in the township of Lowell. Sand Lake is in the township of Nelson. Sparta Village is in Sparta township. |
YEARS | WHEN
INCORPORATED |
POP. JUNE
1, 1884 |
Casnovia | 1875 | 215 |
Cedar Springs | 1871 | 1,023 |
Lisbon | 1869 | 110 |
Lowell | 1859 | 1,838 |
Rockford | 1871 | 815 |
Sand Lake | 1879 | 571 |
Sparta | 1883 | 695 |
KENT COUNTY TOWNSHIPS--POPULATION--FIVE CENSUSES*
*The figures for 1890 are those of the first or preliminary count.
COUNTY | 1854 | 1864 | 1874 | 1884 | 1890* |
ADA | 746 | 1094 | 1351 | 1321 | 1296 |
ALGOMA | 570 | 992 | 2591 | 2061 | 2077 |
ALPINE | 861 | 1194 | 1348 | 1404 | 1383 |
BOWNE | 357 | 814 | 1240 | 1284 | 1212 |
BYRON | 637 | 1145 | 1504 | 1679 | 1748 |
CALEDONIA | 301 | 923 | 1680 | 1931 | 1790 |
CANNON | 874 | 1142 | 1205 | 1145 | 1115 |
CASCADE | 526 | 940 | 1050 | 1147 | 1147 |
COURTLAND | 703 | 1388 | 1287 | 1325 | 1269 |
GAINES | 515 | 961 | 1273 | 1307 | 1349 |
GRAND RAPIDS | 872 | 1053 | 1941 | 4127 | 7783 |
GRATTAN | 800 | 1141 | 1250 | 1163 | 1107 |
LOWELL | 473 | 1417 | 2826 | 2273 | 3143 |
NELSON | ---- | 430 | 2361 | 2345 | 2147 |
OAKFIELD | 643 | 912 | 1080 | 1048 | 1047 |
PARIS | 789 | 1443 | 1816 | 2189 | 3166 |
PLAINFIELD | 807 | 1126 | 1941 | 1450 | 1575 |
SOLON | ---- | 391 | 1310 | 1691 | 1767 |
SPARTA | 531 | 1032 | 1587 | 2265 | 2640 |
SPENCER | ---- | 209 | 662 | 1277 | 1260 |
TYRONE | ---- | 257 | 866 | 1400 | 1499 |
VERGENNES | 1042 | 1210 | 1129 | 1167 | 1094 |
WALKER | 756 | 1279 | 1884 | 2341 | 3240 |
WYOMING | 788 | 1195 | 2008 | 2362 | 3240 |
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