IOWA POPULATION REPORT


Transcribed by Lynn McCleary February 15, 2021
 
COUNTIES 1850 1860 1870 1880
Adair   984 3,982 11,199
Adams   1,533 4,614 11,188
Allamakee 777 12,237 17,868 19,791
Appanoose 3,131 11,931 16,456 16,636
Audubon   454 1,212 7,448
Benton 672 8,496 22,454 24,888
Black Hawk 135 8,244 21,706 23,913
Boone 735 4,232 14,584 20,838
Bremer   4,915 12,528 14,081
Buchanan 517 7,906 17,034 18,547
Buena Vista   57 1,585 7,537
Butler   3,724 9,951 14,293
Calhoun   147 1,602 5,595
Carroll   281 2,451 12,351
Cass   1,612 5,464 16,943
Cedar 3,941 12,949 19,731 18,937
Cerro Gordo   940 4,722 11,461
Cherokee   58 1,967 8,240
Chickasaw   4,336 10,180 14,534
Clarke 709 5,427 8,735 11,512
Clay   52 1,523 4,248
Clayton 3,873 20,728 27,771 28,829
Clinton 2,822 18,938 35,357 36,764
Crawford   383 2,530 12,413
Dalla 854 5,244 12,019 18,746
Davis 7,264 13,764 15,565 16,468
Decatur 965 8,677 12,018 15,336
Delaware 1,759 11,024 17,432 17,952
Des Moines 12,988 19,611 27,2566 33,099
Dickinson   180 1,389 1,901
Dubuque 10,841 31,164 38,969 42,997
Emmett   105 1,392 1,550
Fayette 825 12,073 16,973 22,258
Floyd   3,741 10,768 14,677
Franklin   1,309 4,738 10,248
Fremont 1,244 5,074 11,174 17,653
Greene   1,374 4,627 12,725
Grundy   793 6,399 12,639
Guthrie   3,058 7,061 14,863
Hamilton   1,699 6,055 11,252
Hancock   179 999 3,453
Hardin   5,440 13,684 17,808
Harrison   3,621 8,931 16,649
Henry 8,707 18,701 21,463 20,826
Howard   3,168 6,282 10,837
Humboldt   332 2,596 6,341
Ida   43 226 4,382
Iowa 822 8,029 16,664 19,221
Jackson 1,280 9,883 22,619 23,771
Jasper     22,116 25,962
Jefferson 9,904 15,038 17,839 17,478
Johnson 4,472 17,573 24,898 25,429
Jones 3,007 13,306 19,731 21,052
Keokuk 4,822 13,271 19,434 21,259
Kossuth   416 3,351 6,179
Lee 18,861 29,232 27,210 34,859
Linn 5,444 18,947 28,852 37,235
Louisa 4,939 10,370 12,877 13,146
Lucas 471 5,766 10,388 14,530
Lyon     221 1,968
Madison 1,179 7,339 13,884 17,225
Mahaska 5,989 14,816 22508 25,201
Marion 5,482 16,813 24,436 25,111
Marshall 338 6,015 17,576 23,752
Mills   4,481 8,718 14,135
Mitchell   3,409 9,582 14,361
Monona   832 3,654 9,055
Monroe 2,884 8,612 12,724 13,719
Montgomery   1,256 5,934 15,895
Muscatine 5,731 16,444 21,688 23,168
O'Brien   8 715 4,155
Osceola       2,219
Page 551 4,419 9,975 19,667
Palo Alto   132 1,336 4,131
Plymouth   148 2,199 8,567
Pocahontas   103 1,446 3,713
Polk 4,513 11,625 27,857 42,395
Pottawattamie 7,828 4,968 16,893 39,846
Poweshiek 615 5,668 15,581 18,936
Ringgold   2,923 5,691 12,085
Sac   246 1,411 8,774
Scott 5,986 25,959 38,509 41,270
Shelby   818 2,549 12,636
Sioux   10 570 5,426
Story   4,051 11,651 16,966
Tama 8 5,285 16,131 21,585
Taylor 204 3,590 6,989 15,635
Union   2,012 5,986 14,980
Van Buren 12,270 17,081 17,672 17,042
(Population of Van Buren County was just 7,150 in  2019)
Wapello 8,471 14,518 22,346 25,282
Warren 961 10,281 17,980 19,578
Washington 4,957 14,235 18,952 20,375
Wayne 340 6,409 11,287 16,127
Webster   2,504 10,484 15,950
Winnebago   168 1,562 4,917
Winneshiek 546 13,942 23,570 23,937
Woodbury   1,119 6,172 14,997
Worth   756 2,892 7,953
Wright   653 2,392 5,062
Total 192,214 674,913 1,191,792 1,624,463

Source:
Biographical and Historical Record
of Greene and Carroll Counties, Iowa, 1887, Page 163


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