Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Territory of New Mexico was an organized incorporated territory of the United States from September 9, 1850, [1] until January 6, 1912. [2] It was created from the U.S. provisional government of New Mexico, as a result of Nuevo México becoming part of the American frontier after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
The 1860 United States census was the eighth census conducted in the United States starting June ... New Mexico Territory: 93,516: 0: 93,516: 0 X: District of ...
Arizona County, New Mexico Territory, is mentioned in the 1860 United States census. [8] Mesilla County, appears on 1860s-era territorial map encompassing area in present-day Dona Aña, Grant, Hidalgo, Luna, Sierra west of the Rio Grande; Santa Ana County (1844–1876) absorbed by Bernalillo County; portions are in present-day McKinley County
U.S. Military Province of New Mexico, 1846; U.S. Provisional Government of New Mexico 1846–1850; Unorganized territory created by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848–1850; State of Deseret (extralegal), 1849–1850; Proposed state of New Mexico, 1850; Territory of New Mexico, 1850–1912 [1] Gadsden Purchase of 1853; American Civil War ...
Under the compromise, the American government established the New Mexico Territory on September 9, 1850. The territory, which included all of Arizona, New Mexico and parts of Colorado, officially established its capital at Santa Fe in 1851. The U.S. territorial New Mexico census of 1850 found 61,547 people living in all the territory of New Mexico.
Agua Raiz appeared once on the 1860 U.S. Census in what was then Arizona County, New Mexico Territory. It was identified as "Aqua Rais" with a population of 523, all Pima Indians. [3] It was the 3rd largest community recorded (2nd largest native village behind Arenal) in Arizona County (Tucson being the largest). [citation needed]
As the United States has grown in area and population, new states have been formed out of U.S. territories or the division of existing states. The population figures provided here reflect modern state boundaries. Shaded areas of the tables indicate census years when a territory or the part of another state had not yet been admitted as a new state.
[2]: 161, n. 23 During the 1860 census taken on August 3 and 5, 1860, 32 persons were counted at the Fort Thorn township. [13] However the agency and the settlement of Santa Barbara nearby were abandoned in October 1860, following a Navajo raid on the agency reported in the October 25, 1860, Mesilla Times: