Natrona County WY Archives History - Books .....Federal Census For 30 Years 1923 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wy/wyfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com May 5, 2005, 7:03 pm Book Title: History Of Natrona County, Wyoming FEDERAL CENSUS FOR THIRTY YEARS The official federal census returns gave Casper and Natrona county's population for 1890, 1900, 1910 and 1920 as follows: 1890 1900 1910 1920 Natrona county 1,094 1,785 4,766 14,635 Casper 544 883 2,639 11,447 Muddy precinct 199 179 Bessemer precinct 72 139 Freeland precinct 240 230 Johnstown precinct 159 338 Ervay precinct 71 80 Lone Bear and Powder River precincts 777 The census returns for the precincts of Muddy, Bessemer, Freeland, Johnstown, Ervay, Lone Bear and Powder River cannot be given for 1920 on account of the fact that many new precincts were established between the years 1910 and 1920, thereby reducing the territory embraced in the original precincts, and for the further reason that the enumeration districts in 1920 were considerably changed from the previous years, but it will be observed that the population of the county, outside the city of Casper, has shown a substantial increase, for in 1890 the population of the county, exclusive of Casper, was 550; in 1900, the outside precincts had a population of 902; in 1910, the same territory was increased to 2,127, and in 1920, all the precincts in the county, exclusive of Casper, returned a population of 3,188, or a total, including the city of Casper, of 14,635. Additional Comments: History of NATRONA COUNTY WYOMING 1888-1922 True Portrayal of the Yesterdays of a New County and a Typical Frontier Town of the Middle West. Fortunes and Misfortunes, Tragedies and Comedies, Struggles and Triumphs of the Pioneers and Illustrations BY ALFRED JAMES MOKLER Publisher of the Natrona County Tribune from June 1, 1897, to October 15, 1914 R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY CHICAGO (1923) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wy/natrona/history/1923/historyo/federalc10gms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/wyfiles/ File size: 2.7 Kb