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Centers of Population

This map from the 1932 Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States offers a geographic rendering of the United States' center of population from 1790 to 1930. It references six organizational categories, including total population, urban population, rural population, foreign-born population, and Negro population.

CENTERS OF POPULATION

About this Document

  • Source: Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States
  • Author: Charles O. Paullin and John K. Wright
  • Publisher: Carnegie Institute of Washington and the American Geographical Society of New York
  • Published: Washington, D.C.
  • Citation: page 80
  • Date: 1932