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County and City Extra : Special Historical Edition, 1790-2010 

Edited by Deirdre A. Gaquin and Mary Meghan Ryan 

Lanham, MD : Bernan Press, 2015 

Call Number: Reference HA214 .C686 2015 

The County and City Extras series offers up-to-date annual statistical information for each city (with populations of 25,000 or more), county, state, metropolitan area and congressional district.

For historical census information, County and City Extra : Special Historical Edition offers data from as early as 1790 through 2010.

The special edition is divided into four sections as follows:

• Part A: Gives an overview of national data taken from the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the Bureau of Economic Analysis 
• Part B: Provides data similar to that in Part A, but is more in depth to include the fifty states and the District of Columbia 
• Part C: Includes each county's population from as early as 1790, or the date of its origin through 2010 
• Part D: Illustrates historical populations of cities with 100,000 or more (in 2010) through the use of tables For historical census information,this resource provides easy to read charts and provides notes and definitions at the end of each section. 

Review by Tanya Carr, SWC Librarian