| Brief Stoddard County, Missouri 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 | |||||||||
| 1800 | Spanish land grant in Bollinger County, MO to Major George F. BOLLINGER from Lincoln County, NC (See Note 2) | ||||||||||||||
| 1803 | Louisiana Purchase (See Note 2) | ||||||||||||||
| 1805 | Missouri officially becomes part of the Louisiana Territory of the United States (See Note 2) | ||||||||||||||
| 1811-1812 | New Madrid Earthquakes (See Note 2) | ||||||||||||||
| 1812 | Missouri Territory created (See Note 2) | ||||||||||||||
| 1820 | 0 | 66,586 | 0.0% | ||||||||||||
| 1821 | Missouri becomes a state | ||||||||||||||
| 1823+/- | Settlers from Bollinger County moved into land in Stoddard County based on New Madrid Earthquake Claims? (See Note 2) | ||||||||||||||
| 1830 | 0 | 140,455 | 110.9% | 0.0% | |||||||||||
| 1835 | Stoddard County government created (See Note 2) | ||||||||||||||
| 1840 | 3,153 | 383,702 | 173.2% | 0.8% | |||||||||||
| 1841 | Federal Preemption Act allowed squatters who had settled on land before completion of the government survey to purchase land | ||||||||||||||
| 1850 | 4,277 | 35.6% | 682,044 | 77.8% | 0.6% | ||||||||||
| 1853 | Present Stoddard County boundaries established (See Note 2) | ||||||||||||||
| 1860 | 7,877 | 84.2% | 1,182,012 | 73.3% | 0.7% | ||||||||||
| 1862 | Homestead Act | ||||||||||||||
| 1870 | 8,535 | 8.4% | 1,721,295 | 45.6% | 0.5% | ||||||||||
| 1880 | 13,431 | 57.4% | 2,168,380 | 26.0% | 0.6% | ||||||||||
| 1890 | 17,327 | 29.0% | 2,679,184 | 23.6% | 0.6% | ||||||||||
| 1900 | 24,669 | 42.4% | 3,106,665 | 16.0% | 0.8% | ||||||||||
| 1910 | 27,807 | 12.7% | 3,293,335 | 6.0% | 0.8% | ||||||||||
| 1920 | 29,755 | 7.0% | 3,404,055 | 3.4% | 0.9% | ||||||||||
| 1930 | 27,452 | -7.7% | 3,629,367 | 6.6% | 0.8% | ||||||||||
| 1940 | 33,009 | 20.2% | 3,784,664 | 4.3% | 0.9% | ||||||||||
| 1950 | 33,463 | 1.4% | 3,954,653 | 4.5% | 0.8% | ||||||||||
| 1960 | 29,490 | -11.9% | 4,319,813 | 9.2% | 0.7% | ||||||||||
| 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 Stoddard County, Missouri Origins by LeAnn Kelley, http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mostodd2/history/history.htm | |||||||||||||||