Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4.
General
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4.
American literature -- Periodicals; Civilization -- Periodicals; Culture -- Periodicals
Table of the area, and the number of inhabitants to the square mile, in
each State and Territory in the Union.
Free States. Area in Population Inhab. to
sq. miles in 1850. sq. m.
Maine 30,000 583,188 19.44
New Hampshire 9,280 317,964 34.26
Vermont 10,212 314,120 30.07
Massachusetts 7,800 994,499 126.11
Rhode Island 1,306 147,544 108.05
Connecticut 4,674 370,791 79.83
New York 46,000 3,097,394 67.66
New Jersey 6,320 489,333 60.04
Pennsylvania 46,000 2,311,786 50.25
Ohio 39,964 1,980,408 49.55
Indiana 33,809 988,416 29.23
Illinois 55,405 851,470 15.37
Iowa 50,914 192,214 3.77
Wisconsin 53,924 305,191 5.45
Michigan 56,243 397,654 7.07
California 188,982 165,000 .87
Minnesota Terr. 83,000 6,077 .07
Oregon ditto 341,463 13,293 .04
Mew Mexico ditto 219,774 61,547 .28
Utah ditto 187,923 11,380 .06
Total 1,474,993 13,419,190
Slaveholding States.
Delaware 2,120 91,535 43.64
Maryland 9,356 583,035 62.31
Dis. of Columbia 60 51,687 861.45
Virginia 61,352 1,421,661 23.17
North Carolina 45,000 868,903 19.30
South Carolina 24,500 668,507 27.28
Georgia 58,000 905,999 15.68
Florida 59,268 87,401 1.47
Alabama 50,723 771,671 15.21
Mississippi 47,126 606,555 12.86
Louisiana 46,431 511,974 11.02
Texas 237,321 212,592 .89
Arkansas 52,198 209,639 4.01
Tennessee 45,600 1,002,625 21.98
Kentucky 37,680 982,405 26.07
Missouri 67,380 682,043 10.12
Total 844,115 9,638,223
It will be observed that a large proportion of the area of the Free States
and Territories is comprised in the unsettled country west of the
Mississippi. The following Territories, inhabited by Indians, also lie
west of the Mississippi.
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