Devils Lake weekly world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1911-1914, 1911-08-11
POINT OF INTEREST IS ADVANC
ING TOWARD MINNESOTA
FORMERLY MARYLAND.

The center OF the pOpulatl0n OF the
United States, as enumerated in the
census Of 1910, is l l-2 miles south Of
Unionville, Monroe county, Indiana.
In the last decade it moved westward
81 miles from a point six miles south
east of Columbus Indiana.
This announcement has been made
by the census bureau on the basis of
the official computation Of the center
Of the population made by Charles S.
Sloane, the geographer Of the bureau.
The figures Of the geographer show
not only that the march of population
is still westward, but that there has
been acceleration Of that movement
over the record of the decade between
1890 and 1900. The center Of popula-
ton during that decade moved west
ward only IA miles. The cause of the
acceleration Of the westward trend in
the last decade is the remarkable in
crease Of population in the Pacific and
southwestern states.
The advance Of 81 miles in the
movement of the center in the last de-
cade, while more than twice greater
than the decade before, is less than
it has been at any other census taking
The IA miles it advanced in the previ,
Gus decade was the smallest movement
ever recorded. 1t has advanced stead
lily along the 39th degree of latitude
ever since it stood in the vicinity OF
Baltimore i'll 1890.
The following table shows the posi-
ton of the center Of population at eacl
previous census:
Census year, 1890: approximate 10
cation by important towns, % mile:
east of Baltimore, Nd.
Census year, 1893: Is miles west 81
Baltimore, Nd, westward movement
in miles during pending decade, Al.
Census year, 1910: 10 miles north
west Of Washington, y. c., westward
movement in miles during pending de
cade, 81
Census year, 1920: 16 miles north o.
Woodstock, Va; westward movemen
in miles during pending decade, so.
Census year, 1880: approximate 10
cation by important towns, IS mile!
west-southwest of Moorefeld, in thu
present state of West Virginia; west
ward movement in miles during pend
ing decade, 80.
Census year, 1910: approximate 10
CdLlOu ny luIpoA GnAG Co"H', ~ '1AAAS
south Of Clarksburg in the presen
state Of West Virginia; westward
movement in miles during pending de
Census year, 1850: approximate 10
cation by important towns, % mile
southeast of Parkersburg, in the pres
ent state Of West Virginia; westwar'
movement in miles during pending lie
cade, SIS.
Census year, 1860: approximate 10
cation by important towns, 90 mile
south of Chillicothe, O.; westward
movement in miles during pending de
cade, 81.
Census year, 1870: approximate 10
cation by important towns. 4s mile
east by north Of Cincinnati, O.; west
ward movement in miles during pend
ing decade, ~.
Census year, 1880: approximate 10
cation by important towns, mile
west by south of Cincinnati, o.; west
ward movement in miles during pend
ing decade, So.
Census year, 1890: approximate 10
cation by important towns, 20 mile
east of Columbus, Ind; WESTWARD
movement in miles during pending de
cade, 4S.
Census year, 1900: approximate 10
cation by important towns, mile
southeast Of Columbus, Ind; west
ward movement in miles during pend
ing decade, IA.