Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Most of Tennessee's original forms were also lost, other than Grainger and Rutherford counties. [3] This was the first census in which New York was ranked as the most populous state, if excluding West Virginia from Virginia. Otherwise this would be the last census with Virginia ranked as the most populous state.
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]
Conquistador Hernando de Soto, first European to visit Tennessee. In the 16th century, three Spanish expeditions passed through what is now Tennessee. [12] The Hernando de Soto expedition entered the Tennessee Valley via the Nolichucky River in June 1540, rested for several weeks at the village of Chiaha (near the modern Douglas Dam), and proceeded southward to the Coosa chiefdom in northern ...
Tennessee is home to the first nuclear power reactor in the U.S. to begin operation in the 21st century, which is at the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant in Rhea County. [328] Tennessee was also an early leader in hydroelectric power, [329] and today is the third-largest hydroelectric power-producing state east of the Rocky Mountains. [330]
The state reached 7 million in population for the first time in 2022, according to the data. ... (The Center Square) — Tennessee's population grew from 7.1 million in 2023 to 7.2 million this ...
As of the same year, Davidson County, in which the capital Nashville is located, covers 502 sq mi (1,300 km 2) with a population of 712,334. The population of the state of Tennessee as of the 2023 census estimate was 7,126,489 in an area of 42,169 sq mi (109,217 km 2). [1] [2] [3] The oldest county is Washington County, founded in 1777.
The last members of the baby boomer generation, more than 75 million nationwide, will hit their 60s starting in 2024 and enter retirement age by 2029.