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re: Largest cities in the United States by population by decade
Posted on 7/21/14 at 3:54 pm to Kafka
Posted on 7/21/14 at 3:54 pm to Kafka
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The most interesting thing was BR went from 30K people in 1940 to 120K in 1950
I remember something about the BR metro area being increased in size around that time to include more parishes. If so, that would account for the huge jump.
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Posted on 7/21/14 at 3:59 pm to AnonymousTiger
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I remember something about the BR metro area being increased in size around that time to include more parishes. If so, that would account for the huge jump.
No, because that was just the population of the city. Prior to 1940, Baton Rouge was basically just LSU, the area north of campus, some of the standford/LSU avenue area, downtown, plank road/scenic hwy around exxon, and a little bit of the area around government street near BR High and Capital Heights. Old Goodwood was a plantation. Essen and Seigan were farmland.
Posted on 7/21/14 at 4:13 pm to AnonymousTiger
quote:It was the wartime expansion of the plantsquote:I remember something about the BR metro area being increased in size around that time to include more parishes. If so, that would account for the huge jump.
The most interesting thing was BR went from 30K people in 1940 to 120K in 1950
Many people moved here for the plant jobs, including a gentleman from Philadelphia Miss who brought along his little son, one Billy Cannon
so thank Hitler for the Heisman
Posted on 7/21/14 at 4:17 pm to Kafka
That is crazy that a city can jump that much percentage wise in ten years.
I looked up the metropolitan change too. That took place in the 50's. All I could find is a Wiki link about the change I was thinking about:
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I looked up the metropolitan change too. That took place in the 50's. All I could find is a Wiki link about the change I was thinking about:
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The Baton Rouge metropolitan area was first defined in 1950. Then known as the Baton Rouge Standard Metropolitan Area (or Baton Rouge SMA), it consisted of a single parish – East Baton Rouge – and had a population of 158,236. Following a term change by the Bureau of the Budget (present-day Office of Management and Budget) in 1959, the Baton Rouge SMA became the Baton Rouge Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area (or Baton Rouge SMSA). By the census of 1960, the population had grown to 230,058, a 45% increase over the previous census. A total of 285,167 people lived in East Baton Rouge Parish in 1970.
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Posted on 7/21/14 at 4:19 pm to Kafka
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It was the wartime expansion of the plants
Many people moved here for the plant jobs, including a gentleman from Philadelphia Miss who brought along his little son, one Billy Cannon
so thank Hitler for the Heisman
Not sarcastically, you are the best poster on this website.
Posted on 7/21/14 at 4:23 pm to Kafka
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Houston was so big
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lotta people needed to create all that culture
What culture?
Posted on 7/21/14 at 4:27 pm to Count Chocula
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What culture?
sarcasm meter broken
Posted on 7/21/14 at 4:33 pm to AnonymousTiger
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That is crazy that a city can jump that much percentage wise in ten years.
I looked up the metropolitan change too. That took place in the 50's. All I could find is a Wiki link about the change I was thinking about:
This is sort of the root of a lot of what is wrong with BR (traffic-wise and such) in that it grew really quickly at about the worst time period a city could have grown really quickly.
Posted on 7/21/14 at 4:37 pm to beaverfever
Did not realize Chicago was so close to NYC in population at one point.
1890 census:
NYC- 1.5 million
CHI- 1.1 million
Of course, that was before the creation of the five boroughs.
1890 census:
NYC- 1.5 million
CHI- 1.1 million
Of course, that was before the creation of the five boroughs.
Posted on 7/21/14 at 5:08 pm to Flame Salamander
So NOLA doubled in population between 1830 and 1840, adding over 50,000 residents. I have always heard of a lot of Americans from NE descending on NOLA during that time, settling the Garden District, etc... I did not know the population gain was that dramatic. I can only imagine the stress to infrastructure and society in general.
Posted on 7/21/14 at 5:16 pm to Flame Salamander
Yeah Saint Louis has actually lost a higher percentage of its peak population than Detroit.
Posted on 7/21/14 at 5:20 pm to 805tiger
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Brooklyn was once a city
never saw Welcome Back Kotter reruns?
Posted on 7/21/14 at 5:26 pm to TigerintheNO
Interesting that 1950 saw the population peak for Chicago, Philly, Detroit, Baltimore, Cleveland, St. Louis, DC and Boston...all in the same census.
Posted on 7/21/14 at 5:26 pm to vistajay
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So NOLA doubled in population between 1830 and 1840, adding over 50,000 residents. I have always heard of a lot of Americans from NE descending on NOLA during that time, settling the Garden District, etc... I did not know the population gain was that dramatic. I can only imagine the stress to infrastructure and society in general.
From 1830 to 1850 the number of slaves in the US went from 2 million to 3.2 million, a 60% grown in population.
New Orleans became nationally important as a slave market and port, as slaves were shipped from there upriver by steamboat to plantations on the Mississippi River; it also sold slaves who had been shipped downriver from markets such as Louisville. By 1840, it had the largest slave market in North America. It became the wealthiest and the fourth-largest city in the nation, based chiefly on the slave trade and associated businesses.[54] The trading season was from September to May, after the harvest.
Posted on 7/21/14 at 5:33 pm to SprintFun
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1950 saw the population peak for Chicago, Philly, Detroit, Baltimore, Cleveland, St. Louis, DC and Boston...all in the same census
Baby Boom started in '46
Posted on 7/21/14 at 5:51 pm to TigerintheNO
quote:Before the civil war Natchez had more millionaires than any city in America.
From 1830 to 1850 the number of slaves in the US went from 2 million to 3.2 million, a 60% grown in population
Not per capita. More millionaires -- period.
Posted on 7/21/14 at 5:53 pm to Kafka
Damn Yankees
Posted on 7/21/14 at 6:53 pm to TigerintheNO
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never saw Welcome Back Kotter reruns?
Nope...
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