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- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
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Cumberland County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maine. As of the 2010 census, the population was 281,674. Its county seat is Portland, and is the most populous of the sixteen Maine counties, as well as the most affluent. Cumberland County has the deepest and second largest body of water in the state, Sebago Lake, which supplies tap water to most of the county. The county is the economic and industrial center of the state, having the resources of the Port of Portland, the Maine Mall, and having corporate headquarters of major companies such as Fairchild Semiconductor, IDEXX Laboratories, Unum, and TD Bank.
Cumberland County is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine, Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Cumberland County was founded in 1760 from a portion of Yorkshire County, and named for William, Duke of Cumberland, a son of King George II.
Timeline
Population History
- source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
| Census Year | Population
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| 1790 | 26,105
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| 1800 | 38,208
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| 1810 | 42,831
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| 1820 | 49,445
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| 1830 | 60,102
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| 1840 | 68,658
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| 1850 | 79,538
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| 1860 | 75,591
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| 1870 | 82,021
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| 1880 | 86,359
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| 1890 | 90,949
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| 1900 | 100,689
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| 1910 | 112,014
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| 1920 | 124,376
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| 1930 | 134,645
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| 1940 | 146,000
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| 1950 | 169,201
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| 1960 | 182,751
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| 1970 | 192,528
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| 1980 | 215,789
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| 1990 | 243,135
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Note: Otisfield town (1970 pop. 589) was transferred from Cumberland County to Oxford County in 1978.
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External links
www.cumberlandcounty.org/
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