Statistical information on Indian Fields, Tuscola County, Michigan

Copyright © 1998 by Bonnie Petee. This copy contributed for use in 
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Taken from The History of Tuscola County, Biographical Sketches and 
Illustrations, H. R. Page Co., Chicago, 1883. Thanks to Bonnie Petee.


Indian Fields' Statistical

Census of 1854:

Population, 100; number of acres of taxable land, 4,547; number of 
acres improved, 111; number of acres of wheat, 28; number of bushels 
of corn preceding year, 270.  No wheat was raised the preceding year.  
Number of horses, 4; number of work oxen 24; number of cows, 41.

Census of 1860:

Population, 128; number of families, 26; number of dwelling houses, 
32; value of real estates owned $62,815; number of farms, 22; number 
of acres improved, 790; number of horses, 27; number of cows, 38; 
number of bushels of wheat raised, 1,011; bushels of rye, 47; bushels 
of corn, 990; bushels of oats, 1,072; bushels of barley, 57; bushels 
of potatoes, 633; pounds of butter made, 3,350; tons of hay cut, 101; 
saw-mills, 1; feet of lumber sawed, 500,000.

Census of 1864:

Population, 249; number of marriages preceding year, 11; number of 
deaths preceding year, 16; number of acres of taxable land, 4,559; 
number of acres of improved land, 984; number of acre of wheat, 226; 
number of bushels of corn preceding year, 2,440; bushels of wheat 
preceding year, 2,343; tons of hay cut, 246; pounds of wool sheared, 
481; pounds of butter made preceding year, 3,980; pounds of cheese 
made preceding year, 200; number of horses, 61; number of 
flouring-mills, 1; number of barrels of flour made preceding year, 
1,500;  number of saw-mills, 1; feet of lumber cut, 350,000.

Census of 1870:

Population, 826; number of families, 169; number of dwellings, 173; 
number of voters, 203; number of deaths, 7; bushels of wheat raised, 
8,445; corn, 5,765; oats, 4,002; buckwheat, 319; potatoes 4,387; 
saw-mills 2; feet of lumber cut, 980,000; flouring-mills, 2; barrels 
of flour made, 4,300.

Census of 1874:

Population, 1,006; males, 541; females, 465; number of horses, 138; 
number of working oxen, 37; number of cows, 101; number of sheep, 659; 
number of swine, 80; bushels of wheat, 7,354; bushels of corn, 11,733; 
bushels of apples, 600; bushels of potatoes, 6,754; tons of hay cut, 
507.

Population in 1874:

Population:  1,871.  Total equalized valuation in 1882, $789,915, 
number of farms in 1881, 61; acres of improved land, 3, 552; bushels 
of wheat raised in 1880, 16,147; of corn, 23,094; tons of hay, 405.






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