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Census Records

Census Records on Microfilm

Microfilm copies of the following Census records are in the North Carolina Collection of the Gastonia Main Library.

  • Population schedules of the first census of the United States, 1790.
  • Population schedules of the census of the United States, North Carolina, 1800-1930.
  • Population schedules of the census of the United States, South Carolina, 1800-1930.
  • Census descriptions of geographic subdivisions and enumeration districts,
    • 1930 North Carolina and N. Dakota Roll 80
    • 1930 South Carolina, S. Dakota, Tennessee Roll 86
    • 1940 Rhode Island to Tennessee Roll 109
    • 1940 North Carolina to N. Dakota Roll 114
  • Enumeration district maps for the twelfth through sixteenth censuses of the United States, 1900-1940
    • Alamance-Rowan County, NC Roll 44
    • Rutherford-Yancey County, NC Roll 45
    • Abbeville-York County, SC Roll 58
  • Non-population schedules : Industry / Manufacturers: North Carolina,1850, 1860, 1870,1880.
  • North Carolina Slave Schedules, 1850, 1860 (Gaston and Lincoln County)
  • 1840 Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services.
  • 1890 Special Schedules of the 11th Census Enumerating Union Veterans & Widows of Union Veterans of the Civil War.

 

The State Archives of North Carolina has these nonpopulation censuses for North Carolina:

  • Agriculture: 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880
  • Defective, Dependent, and Delinquent Classes: 1880
  • Industry/Manufacturing: 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880
  • Social Statistics: 1850, 1860, 1870

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