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- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia
Essex County is a county located in the northeastern part of the State of Massachusetts. As of the 2010 census, the population was 743,159. Prior to the dissolution of the county government in 1999, it had two county seats: Salem, with jurisdiction over the Southern Essex District, and Lawrence, with jurisdiction over the Northern Essex District. The county and the districts remain as administrative regions recognized by various agencies of the governmental substructure, which gathered vital statistics or disposed of judicial case loads under these geographic subdivisions, and are required to keep the records based on them. Salem and Lawrence are no longer county seats of government. However, the county subdivision has been utilized by some agencies. For example, the county as it was has been designated the Essex National Heritage Area by the National Park Service.
Timeline
Population History
- source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
| Census Year | Population
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| 1790 | 57,913
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| 1800 | 61,196
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| 1810 | 71,888
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| 1820 | 74,655
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| 1830 | 82,859
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| 1840 | 94,987
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| 1850 | 131,300
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| 1860 | 165,611
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| 1870 | 200,843
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| 1880 | 244,535
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| 1890 | 299,995
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| 1900 | 357,030
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| 1910 | 436,477
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| 1920 | 482,156
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| 1930 | 498,040
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| 1940 | 496,313
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| 1950 | 522,384
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| 1960 | 568,831
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| 1970 | 637,887
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| 1980 | 633,632
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| 1990 | 670,080
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Research Tips
External links
- Outstanding guide to Essex County, Massachusetts family history and genealogy (FamilySearch Research Wiki). History, towns and cities, county histories, birth, marriage, and death records, deeds, wills, court records, divorce records, naturalizations, tax records, warnings out, maps, and societies.
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