United States Census Bureau and Related Topics

United States census

Census that is legally mandated by the U.S. Constitution, and takes place every 10 years.

A woman with a Hollerith pantograph punch. The keyboard is for the 1940 U.S. census population card.

This 1940 Census publicity photo shows a census worker in Fairbanks, Alaska. The dog musher remains out of earshot to maintain confidentiality.

Census outreach flyers hang at Sure We Can - redemption center in Bushwick, Brooklyn - 2020

The United States Census Bureau (officially the Bureau of the Census, as defined in Title 13 U.S.C. § 11) is responsible for the United States census.

The United States census of 1930, conducted by the Census Bureau one month from April 1, 1930, determined the resident population of the United States to be 122,775,046, an increase of 13.7 percent over the 106,021,537 persons enumerated during the 1920 census.

Midwestern United States

Divisions of the Midwest by the U.S. Census Bureau into East North Central and West North Central, separated largely by the Mississippi River.

Scotts Bluff National Monument in western Nebraska

The Driftless Area as viewed from Wildcat Mountain State Park in Vernon County, Wisconsin

Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota

Prairie in Effigy Mounds National Monument, Iowa

Monks Mound, located at the Cahokia Mounds near Collinsville, Illinois, is the largest Pre-Columbian earthwork in America north of Mesoamerica and a World Heritage Site

Young Oglala Lakota girl in front of tipi with puppy beside her, probably on or near Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota

Cumulus clouds hover above a yellowish prairie at Badlands National Park, South Dakota, native lands to the Sioux.

c. 1681 map of Marquette and Jolliet's 1673 expedition

Beaver hunting grounds, the basis of the fur trade

The state cessions that eventually allowed for the creation of the territories north and southwest of the River Ohio

Lake Michigan is shared by four Midwestern states: Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin.

The Upper Mississippi River near Harpers Ferry, Iowa

An animation depicting when United States territories and states forbade or allowed slavery, 1789–1861

A map of various Underground Railroad routes

Minneapolis, Minnesota is on the Mississippi River

Omaha, Nebraska, is on the Missouri River

Distribution of Americans claiming German Ancestry by county in 2018

German population density in the United States, 1870 census

A pastoral farm scene near Traverse City, Michigan, with a classic American red barn

Standing wheat in Kansas, part of America's Breadbasket

Soybean fields at Applethorpe Farm, north of Hallsville in Ross County, Ohio

The Chicago Board of Trade Building a National Historic Landmark

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland

Mount Rushmore is located in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

The Milwaukee Art Museum is located on Lake Michigan.

The first local meeting of the new Republican Party took place here in Ripon, Wisconsin on March 20, 1854.

Midwestern U.S. Senators by party for the 117th Congress

Midwestern U.S. Representatives by party for the 117th Congress

The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the Midwest or the American Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau (also known as "Region 2").

Northeastern United States

Geographical region of the United States.

New York, the most populous city in the Northeast and all of the United States

Philadelphia, the second most populous city in the Northeast and the sixth most populated city in the United States

Boston, the most populated city in Massachusetts and New England and the third most populated city in the Northeast

Embarkation of the Pilgrims, Robert Walter Weir (1857)

Penn's Treaty with the Indians, Benjamin West (1772)

The High Point Monument as seen from Lake Marcia at High Point, Sussex County, the highest elevation in New Jersey at 1803 ft above sea level

Cape Cod Bay, a leading tourist destination in Massachusetts

The Palisades along the Hudson River, New Jersey

U.S. Route 220 as it passes through Lamar Township, Pennsylvania

The Northeast is one of the four regions defined by the United States Census Bureau for the collection and analysis of statistics.

Population

Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a city or town, region, country, continent, or the world.

The years taken for every billion people to be added to the world's population, and the years that population was reached (with future estimates).

According to the United States Census Bureau the world's population was about 7.5 billion in 2019 and that the 7 billion number was surpassed on 12 March 2012.

Americans

Americans are the citizens and nationals of the United States of America.

Apple pie and baseball are icons of American culture.

The First Baptist Church in America in Providence, Rhode Island.

The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. is the largest Catholic church in the United States.

The Salt Lake Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah is the largest LDS temple.

Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral in Chicago's Ukrainian Village.

Unity Temple Unitarian Universalist church in Oak Park, Illinois

Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island is America's oldest surviving synagogue.

The Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, Michigan is the largest mosque in North America.

Hsi Lai Temple in Hacienda Heights, California is one of the largest Buddhist temples in the Western Hemisphere.

The Bahá'í House of Worship, in Wilmette, Illinois.

The Jain Center of Greater Phoenix (JCGP) in Phoenix, Arizona.

Six races are officially recognized by the U.S. Census Bureau for statistical purposes: White, American Indian and Alaska Native, Asian, Black or African American, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, and people of two or more races.

West Coast of the United States

Coastline along which the Western United States meets the North Pacific Ocean.

After the 2018 elections, the Democratic Party controlled all but one coastal seat in the United States House of Representatives

Los Angeles is the largest city on the West Coast and second-largest in the United States

The term typically refers to the contiguous U.S. states of California, Oregon, and Washington, but sometimes includes Alaska and Hawaii, especially by the United States Census Bureau as a U.S. geographic division.