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### Decennial Census Records

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## Availability of 1890 Census

A newspaper photograph captured the scene after adevastating fire and pointed out the need for safestorage of national records.Photo courtesy of the National Archives.
Most of the census' population schedules were badly damaged by a fire in the Commerce Department Building in January 1921.  For more information about the fire, the National Archives published an article, "First in the Path of the Firemen: The Fate of the 1890 Population Census," in its Spring 1996 *Prologue*.

The extant schedules are numbered and noted following rolls 1-3 below.

**Roll 1**

Perry County, Alabama (Perryville Beat No.11 and Severe Beat No. 8) [fragments 1-455].

**Roll 2**

District of Columbia. Q, 13th, 14th, R, Q, Corcoran, 15th, S, R, and Riggs Streets, Johnson Avenue, and S Street [fragments 456-781].

**Roll 3**

Muscogee County (Columbus), Georgia; McDonough County (Mound Twp.), Illinois; Wright County (Rockford), Minnesota; Hudson County (Jersey City), New Jersey; Westchester County, (Eastchester); and Suffolk County (Brookhaven Twp.),  New York; Gaston County (South Point Twp. and River Bend Twp.) and Cleveland County (Twp. No. 2), North Carolina; Hamilton County (Cincinnati) and Clinton County (Wayne Twp.), Ohio; Union County (Jefferson Twp.), South Dakota; Ellis County (J.P. No. 6, Mountain Peak, and Ovilla Precinct), Hood County (Precinct No. 5), Rusk County (No. 6 and J.P. No. 7), Trinity County (Trinity Town and Precinct No. 2) and Kaufman County (Kaufman) [fragments 782-1,233], Texas.

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