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A corrected California 1850 census would go from 92,597 (the uncorrected "official number") to over 120,000. The 1850 U.S. census, the first census that included the names and sex of everyone in a family, showed only 7,019 females, with 4,165 non-Indian females older than 15 in the state. [61]
California: 1788, 1790, 1796, 1797–1798, 1816, 1836, 1844,⊗ 1852. [1] California's first five censuses were conducted back when it was under Spanish rule whereas its sixth and seventh censuses were conducted when California was under Mexican rule. [3] [2] Colorado: 1885, 1861⊗, and 1866. [1] [2] Connecticut
The first short-form-only census since 1940, as the decennial long form has been replaced by the American Community Survey. The first census that recorded a population exceeding 300 million. Will be available for public inspection on April 1, 2082. 2020 [ad] 331,449,281 7% California (39,538,223) New York, NY (8,804,190)
The 1790 United States census was the first United States census. It recorded the population of the whole United States as of Census Day, August 2, 1790, as mandated by Article 1, Section 2, of the Constitution and applicable laws. In the first census, the population of the United States was enumerated to be 3,929,214 inhabitants. [1] [2]
[53] [54] Edward Duplex was the first Black mayor in California, elected to office in Wheatland in 1888. [55] [56] The first census recorded of African Americans in California appeared in 1850 with 962 people, and in 1860 with 4,086 people. [57] Then, in 1910 the number rose to 22,000. [58]
Map of the United States with California highlighted. California is a state located in the Western United States. It is the most populous state and the third largest by area after Alaska and Texas. According to the 2020 United States Census, California has 39,538,223 inhabitants and 155,779.22 square miles (403,466.3 km 2) of land. [1]
Since the 2000 US census, California has been known as the second state in US history (after Hawaii since its statehood in 1959) to become majority minority (it has since been joined by Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Maryland, and Georgia), and since 2014, the first state to have a Latino plurality (of any race). The media discussed the ...
The 1562 map of the Americas, created by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, which applied the name California for the first time.. California was the name given to a mythical island populated only by beautiful Amazon warriors, as depicted in Greek myths, using gold tools and weapons in the popular early 16th-century romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) by ...