N. B. In case Sunday School exists independently of church organization fill in numbers (8), (14) and (16) if applicable. STATISTICS OF POPULATION. POPULATION. The first census of Michigan, which was taken in 1800 as a part of the National Census of that year, reports only 551 inhabitants for the entire State. This report is misleading, however, inasmuch as Michigan, being at that time unorganized territory, had no definite boundary. The lower peninsula formed a part of the county of Wayne, which included also parts of Ohio and Indiana, and, although there were at least 2.000 inhabitants in this portion of the State, all were reported from Ohio. The only inhabitants allotted to Michigan in this report were the 551 living in the county of Mackinac, which was then an ill-defined portion of the upper peninsula. The population of the State, according to the official count taken June 1, 1904, is 2,530,016, which, compared with the population of equivalent areas enumerated by the Federal census in 1900, shows an increase of 109,034, or 4.5 per cent. The percentage of increase from 1880 to 1884-1890 to 1894 and from 1900 to 1904, respectively, would be as follows: The gradual diminution in the rate of increase, as shown by the figures in Table I, is doubtless due to the gradual decrease of immigration as the State becomes more settled. 1904 1900. 1894. 1890. 1884. 1880. 1874. 1870. 1864. 1860. 1854. 1850. 1840. 1830. 1820. 1810. 1500. Census years. TABLE II.-Increase of population of the State at each census, 1800 to 1904. The progress of the State in point of population during the period of one hundred and four years, is well summarized in Table II. From these figures, it will be seen, the most noticeable rate of increase occurred in the decade from 1830 to 1840, when the population increased from 31,639 to 212.267, or 570.9 per cent. It was during this decade that the territory became a State. Viewed as a whole, the progress of the State, as indicated by its growth in population, has been strong and constant from the time the first census was taken, growing, in little, more than a century, from less than 4,000 to over 2,500,000 inhabitants. The population of the State at each census, from 1800 to 1904, inclusive, together with their increase, per cent of increase and average annual increase in population during each period is presented in Table III. TABLE III.-Increase and per cent of increase of the population of the State, 1800 to 1904. (a) Exclusive of Wayne county, which was returned with Ohio. (b) Exclusive of soldiers in the field. "Had the soldiers in the field been enumerated in 1864, the increase from 1860 to 1864 would have been nearly 90,000, or about 12 per cent, and from 1864 to 1870, about 345,000, or 41 per cent." State censuses. DENSITY OF POPULATION. The gross area (land and water surface) of Michigan, according to the United States report of 1900, was 58.915 square miles. As there has been no acquisition of territory since that date, this constitutes the present area of the State. Computing the density of population, using land surface only, 57,430 square miles, there are in the State, June 1, 1904, on the average, 44.05 inhabitants to the square mile, a relative gain of one and nine-tenths as compared with 1900. Arranged in their geographical order, the southern counties, compris ing 17,474 square miles, average 84.79 inhabitants to the square mile; the central counties, 8,773 square miles, 51.43; the northern counties. 14,514 square miles, 22.16, and in the upper peninsula, 16,669 square miles, 16.53 inhabitants to the square mile. Table IV gives, by counties, the land area of the State with average number of inhabitants to each square mile; together with comparative figures from the United States census of 1900. |