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 CITIES AND TOWNS — POPULATION

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counties are themselves the units, thouj^^h subdivided for educational or other special purposes. Their officials have in general additional functions, as the care of the poor and the superintendence of schools. In the Middle and North- western States the two systems of local government are mixed. In the West all the public land is already divided into townships six miles square. Population In 1880 there were 45, and in 1890, 74 cities with upwards of 40,000 inhabitants. Of the entire population in 1890, 18,284,385, or 29.20 per cent (in 1880, 22.57 per cent) lived in 448 towns (in 1880, 286 towns) of over 8000 inhabitants. Of these towns, 283 had each from 8000 to 20,000 inhabitants ; 91 from 20,000 to 40,000 ; 35 from 40,000 to 75,000 ; 14 from 75,000 to 125,000 ; 14 from 125,000 to 250,000 ; 7 from 250,000 to 500,000 ; 1 from 500,000 to 1,000,000 ; and 3 over 1,000,000. The following table shows the fifty principal cities of the United States, giving the population in 1880 and 1890 :

Population Population PifirfiQ Pi fine \_/lLltro ISSO ISOO ^ILlCO 18S0 1890 New York. . 1,206,299 1,515,301 Denver. . . 35,629 106,713 Chicago. . . 503,185 1,099,850 Indianapolis. 75,056 105,436 Philadelphia. 847,170 1,046,964 Allegheny. . 78,682 105,287 Brooklyn. 566,063 806,343 Albany. . . 90,758 94,923 St. Louis. . 350,518 451,770 Columbus. . 51,647 88,150 Boston. . . 362,839 448,477 Syracuse. . 51,792 88,143 Baltimore. 332,313 434,439 Worcester. 58,291 84,6.55 San Francisco 2.33,959 298,997 Toledo. . . 50,137 81,434 Cincinnati. . 255,139 296,908 Richmond. . 63,600 81,388 Cleveland. . 160,146 261,. 353 New Haven 62,882 81,298 Buffalo. . . 155,134 255,664 ' Paterson. . 51,031 78,347 New Orleans. 216,090 242,039 Lowell. . . 59,475 77,696 Pittsburg. . 156,389 238,617 Nashville. . 43,350 76,168 Washington. 177,624 230,392 Scranton. . 45,850 75,215 Detroit. . . 116,340 205,876 Fall River. . 48,961 74,398 Milwaukee. . 115,587 204,468 Cambridge. . 52,669 70,028 Newark. ., 136,508 181,830 Atlanta. . . 37,409 65,533 Minneapolis. 46,887 164,738 Memphis. . 33,592 64,495 Jersey City 120,722 163,003 Wilmington. 42,478 61,431 Louisville. 123,758 161,129 Dayton. . . 38,678 61,220 Omaha. . . 30,518 140,452 Troy .... 56,747 60,956 Rochester. . 89,366 133,896 Orand Rapids. 32,016 60,278 St. Paul. . 41,473 133,156 Reading. . . 43,278 58,661 Kansas City. 55,785 132,716 Camden. . . 41,659 58,313 Providence. . 104,857 132,146 Trenton. . . 29,910 57,458