HISTORY OF TUSCOLA COUNTY

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GENERAL STATISTICS

  Population School
Children		 Marriages Births Deaths No. Acres
Taxable land		 No. Acres
Improved land		 No.
Farms		 Total
Equalized
Valuation
1883       750 235        
1882   8,981 275 763 248 504,072     8,660,277.00
1881   8,597   583 344 495,460 107,185 2,888 8,156,730.00
1880 25,779 8,007   544 197 497,087 139,946 3,694 7,434,631.00
1879       575 229 496,808   86,660 2,472 2,255,397.00
1878   7,225   523 149 493,714     2,223,136.00
1877           490,819     2,171,353.00
1876   6,569   467 141 494,583     2,156,828.00
1875   6,058   460 140       2,123,214.00
1874 16,998 5,602 150 427 158       2,075,951.00
1873   5,178 133 510 211       2,149,944.00
1872   5,062 131 391 137       1,971,511.00
1871   4,691 114 352 81       1,852,436.00
1870 13,715   101     444,584 48,400 1,643 1,795,594.00
1869   3,896   75           1,829,588.00
1868       77   71       1,668,842.00
1867   3,220   148         1,573,763.00
1866   2,533             1,433,593.00
1865   2,328             1,413,849.00
1864 6,983 2,301       127,728 19,785   1,255,519.00
1863   1,946   47   110       1,223,178.00
1862   1,730             1,133,404.82
1861   1,568                930,709.42
1860 4,855 1,313         18,837 882 1,156,532.00
1859   1,027             1,214,563.50
1858      830 27           1,101,338.00
1857      670 25              974,523.00
1856      483 27              922,094.45
1855      395 16              595,551.80
1854 1,504   16     41,913 2,481      329,551.80
1853                    278,158.92
1852                    135,304.90
1851       123 5            
1850 291   1       390 13  

 

PRINCIPAL FARM PRODUCTS
 

  WHEAT
BUSHELS		 INDIAN
CORN
BUSHELS		 OATS
BUSHELS		 POTATOES
BUSHELS		 HAY
TONS		 WOOL
POUNDS		 BUTTER
POUNDS		 CHEESE
POUNDS
1850      470 1,076 315 1,040 77 317 1,107 150
1853 3,162 6,454   7,038 563 233 8,295 200
1859 25,435 39,332 22,308 28,190 2,790      
1863 26,385 42,599   39,705 6,997 1,972 93,483 4,090
1870 116,175 82,863 84,512 118,673 15,376 9,733 147,919 8,430
1873 146,070 175,400   146,162 17,065      
1879 638,860 431,473 299,411 204,960 23,670 41,348 367,340 4,319
1880 527,201 777,190 298,470 250,691 18,531      
            110,982 784,961 5,558
            102,136    

POPULATION BY TOWNSHIPS

TOWNSHIP 1854 1860 1864 1870 1874 1880
             
AUCHVILLE 195 Detached from Tuscola Co.  
AKRON   186 304 585 726 1,367
ALMER   263 343 671 745 1,181
ARBELA 248 527 608 870 979 1,283
COLUMBIA   94 199 424 538 1,196
DAYTON   129 326 660 789 1,039
DENMARK 148 309 368 816 880 1,643
ELKLAND   51 124 411 726 1,250
ELLINGTON   92 203 452 465 723
ELMWOOD   33 100 369 565 1,017
FAIR GROVE   367 513 928 1,056 1,609
FREMONT   96 231 665 794 1,126
GENEVA   45 107 152 207  
GILFORD   114 186 353 512 1,086
INDIAN FIELDS 100 128 259 825 1,006 1,871
JUNIATA 302 643 766 1,042 1,041 1,302
KINGSTON     47 324 383 649
KOYLTON   60 142 422 580 869
MILLINGTON   285 400 613 949 1,633
NOVESTA       105 171 356
TUSCOLA 437 954 1,022 1,110 1,291 1,301
VASSAR 74 229 264 775 1,298 1,734
WATERTOWN   208 322 684 804 1,094
WELLS   72 66 194 295 441
WISNER     93 165 190  
             
TOTAL 1,504 4,855 6,983 13,714 16,990 25,771

     NOTE- The Township of Geneva was merged into other townships in 1878.  The population of Wisner for 1880 is given with that of Gilford as it was so retuned by the enumerator, and cannot now be separated.