Statistics included: Area; Population; Dwelling Units; Telephones; Electric Bills; Births,
Deaths, Marriages; Retail, Wholesale, Service Trades; Business Units; Manufactures;
Agriculture; Bank Deposits; City Finances, Employment, School Systems; Hospitals;
Climate

Areas covered: Counties; Cities; Standard Metropolitan Areas; Smaller Urban Places;
Congressional Districts; Regions, Divisions, States

Prepared under the direction of

EDWIN D. GOLDFIELD
Chief, Statistical Reports Division

DIVISION

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON, D. C.

1957

ROBERT W. BURGESS, Director

A. Ross ECKLER, Deputy Director
HOWARD C. GRIEVES, Assistant Director
CONRAD TAEUBER, Assistant Director

JACK B. ROBERTSON, Special Assistant

MORRIS H. HANSEN, Assistant Director for Statistical Standards
WALTER L. KEHRES, Assistant Director for Administration
CALVERT L. DEDRICK, Chief, International Statistical Programs Office
A. W. VON STRUVE, Acting Public Information Officer

Administrative Service-EVERETT H. BURKE, Chief

Agriculture-RAY HURLEY, Chief

Budget and Management-CHARLES H. ALEXANDER, Chief
Business-HARVEY KAILIN, Chief

Economic Operations-M. D. BINGHAM, Chief
Field-ROBERT B. VOIGHT, Chief

Foreign Trade J. EDWARD ELY, Chief
Geography-CLARENCE E. BATSCHELET, Chief
Governments-ALLEN D. MANVEL, Chif

Housing-WAYNE F. DAUGHERTY, Chief
Industry-MAXWELL R. CONKLIN, Chief
Machine Tabulation-C. F. VAN AKEN, Chief
Personnel-PERRY W. SHEPHERD, Acting Chief
Population-HOWARD G. BRUNSMAN, Chief
Statistical Reports-EDWIN D. GOLDFIELD, Chief
Statistical Research-WILLIAM N. HURWITZ, Chief
Transportation-DONALD E. CHURCH, Chief

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The County and City Data Book was prepared under the direction of Edwin D. Goldfield,
Chief, Statistical Reports Division. Compilation was under the supervision of William
Lerner, Chief, Statistical Abstract Branch, assisted by Dorothy M. Belzer for editorial
supervision and Stanley Greene for planning and review.

The cooperation of many persons who contributed to the preparation of this volume is
gratefully acknowledged. The specific sources shown for each item indicate the various
Government and private agencies which contributed information and assistance.

The County and City Data Book, 1956, is issued as a part of the publication program of the 1954 Censuses of Agriculture, Business, and Manufactures.

June 1957.

... 1952 edition of the County and City Data Book awarded first prize as a significant contribution to the science of marketing, by the Washington Chapter of the American Marketing Association

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A-1.-Population of cities having 25,000 inhabitants or more, in rank order: 1950.

A-2.-Population of urban places, alphabetically by county: 1950____

A-3.-Urban places, alphabetically by State, with county of location: 1950..

ppendix B. County governments and related areas......

ppendix C. Cities (in table 4) without weather station, and the substituted nearby station___.

346 364

430

432

457

474

475

477

aps for individual States, showing counties, standard metropolitan areas, and cities having 25,000 inhabitants or more...

517

opendix D. Components of standard metropolitan areas and New England metropolitan State economic areas..

COLUMN HEADINGS FOR COUNTIES AND STANDARD METROPOLITAN AREAS
[Standard metropolitan area data shown only for items 1 to 99]