DESCENDANTS OF
There is considerable information available to let us
understand the population of
As an aid to understanding what we can do with this information, let us first take a look at a riddle. The riddle is as follows:
There was a small village in which exactly 100 people
lived at the beginning of the year of our riddle. During the year two of the residents died, 4
children were born and a family-of-4 moved into the village from
This same method that we use to solve the riddle can be
used to explore a county such as
If we do these calculations for
1.
Over the past 200
years, there have been over 116,000 people who have resided in
2.
Of these 116,000
residents, 58,000 to 60,000 have died and are buried in
3. About 38,000 to 40,000, moved out of the County. Most of these left the County over the past 150 years. Most were the off-spring of residents who were in search of land of their own and jobs to support young families.
4.
Around 15,000 people continue to live in
5.
The descendants of residents who emigrated from
The details for these calculations are given in the table below:
YEAR OF CENSUS |
POPULATION 1 OF |
BIRTHS 2 FOR PREVIOUS DECADE |
DEATHS 3 FOR PREVIOUS DECADE |
IMMIGRANTS TO |
1800 |
200 |
110 |
32 |
200 |
1810 |
2,300 |
679 |
199 |
2092 |
1820 |
4,645 |
1833 |
554 |
2297 |
1830 |
8,768 |
3447 |
1070 |
3995 |
1840 |
18,521 |
6590 |
2177 |
9515 |
1850 |
28,351 |
10148 |
3740 |
9389 |
1860 |
25,741 |
11197 |
4316 |
1000* 5 |
1870 |
25,779 |
9866 |
4111 |
500* |
1880 |
26,496 |
9200 |
4171 |
141.4 |
1890 |
25,715 |
8223 |
4166 |
|
1900 |
27,031 |
7938 |
4208 |
910 6 |
1910 |
24,244 |
7486 |
4091 |
|
1920 |
20,660 |
6040 |
3583 |
|
1930 |
18,426 |
4026 |
3118 |
|
1940 |
18,641 |
3447 |
2957 |
|
1950 |
15,362 |
3910 |
2713 |
|
1960 |
15,268 |
3477 |
2444 |
|
1970 |
15,739 |
2698 |
2474 |
|
1980 |
17,382 |
2468 |
2643 |
|
1990 |
15,497 |
2745 |
2623 |
|
2000 |
15,180 |
2132 |
2448 |
|
* Estimated
1
2
3
4 Immigrants
calculated as difference between previous census plus births minus deaths. These numbers are probably too low by as much
as 20% because they do not include immigrants who took the place of residents
who left the County in the same period.
5 The rapid drop in immigration in the decade of the
1860s was likely due to the Civil War in
6 The spike of population in the decade of the
1900s was due to an influx of population brought into the County by the oil
boom.
The
decades of the 1840s and 1850s saw the peak of immigration into
Provided by Dick
Harrington