| Brief Montcalm County, Michigan Timeline | ||||||||||||||
| Prepared By Jason Wallace, [email protected] | ||||||||||||||
| County pop. | ||||||||||||||
| County | Percentage Growth | State | Percentage Growth | as percentage | Other significant events | |||||||||
| Year | Population | from previous Census | Population | from previous Census | of total state pop. | between Censuses | ||||||||
| 1763 | France cedes Northwest Territory, including Michigan, to Britain at the end of French and Indian War | |||||||||||||
| 1783 | Britain cedes Northwest Territory, including Michigan, to the United States at the end of the American Revolution | |||||||||||||
| 1787 | US Congress adopts the Northwest Ordinance, allowing for the establishment of governments and the sale of land. | |||||||||||||
| 1830 | 0 | 31,639 | 0.0% | |||||||||||
| 1831 | Montcalm county named (See Note 2, page 357) | |||||||||||||
| 1837 | Michigan becomes a state | |||||||||||||
| 1838 | Work begins on the Saginaw and Maple River Canal (See note 2) | |||||||||||||
| 1839 | Work ends on the Saginaw and Maple River Canal (See Note 2) | |||||||||||||
| 1839 | Survey map of Ferris Township completed | |||||||||||||
| 1840 | 0 | 212,267 | 570.9% | 0.0% | ||||||||||
| 1850 | Montcalm county organized (See Note 2, page 358) | |||||||||||||
| 1850 | 891 | 397,654 | 87.3% | 0.2% | ||||||||||
| 1852 | Grant of first land patent in Ferris Twp. | |||||||||||||
| 1854 | First settler in Ferris Twp, Elijah Ferris from Geauga County, Ohio (See Note 2) | |||||||||||||
| 1860 | 3,968 | 345.3% | 749,113 | 88.4% | 0.5% | |||||||||
| 1870 | 13,629 | 243.5% | 1,184,059 | 58.1% | 1.2% | |||||||||
| 1880 | 33,148 | 143.2% | 1,636,937 | 38.2% | 2.0% | |||||||||
| 1890 | 32,637 | -1.5% | 2,093,889 | 27.9% | 1.6% | |||||||||
| 1900 | 32,754 | 0.4% | 2,420,982 | 15.6% | 1.4% | |||||||||
| 1910 | 32,069 | -2.1% | 2,810,173 | 16.1% | 1.1% | |||||||||
| 1920 | 30,441 | -5.1% | 3,668,412 | 30.5% | 0.8% | |||||||||
| 1930 | 27,471 | -9.8% | 4,842,325 | 32.0% | 0.6% | |||||||||
| 1940 | 28,581 | 4.0% | 5,256,106 | 8.5% | 0.5% | |||||||||
| 1950 | 31,013 | 8.5% | 6,371,766 | 21.2% | 0.5% | |||||||||
| 1960 | 35,795 | 15.4% | 7,823,194 | 22.8% | 0.5% | |||||||||
| Notes: | 1. Raw Historic Census Data comes from the University of Virginia Library, http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/php/newlong2.php | |||||||||||||
| 2. From 1881 History of Ionia and Montcalm Counties, Michigan by John S. Schenck | ||||||||||||||