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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
St. Louis County is a county located in the Arrowhead Region of the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 200,231. Its county seat is Duluth. It is the largest county in Minnesota by land area, and the largest in the United States by total area east of the Mississippi River, ahead of Aroostook County, Maine.
St. Louis County is included in the Duluth, MN-Superior WI Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Major industries include pulpwood production and tourism. Open pit mining of taconite and processing it into high grade iron ore remains an important part of the economy of the Iron Range. Parts of the federally recognized Bois Forte and Fond du Lac Indian reservations are in the county.
Timeline
Population History
- source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
Census Year | Population
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1860 | 406
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1870 | 4,561
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1880 | 4,504
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1890 | 44,862
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1900 | 82,932
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1910 | 163,274
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1920 | 206,391
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1930 | 204,596
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1940 | 206,917
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1950 | 206,062
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1960 | 231,588
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1970 | 220,693
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1980 | 222,229
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1990 | 198,213
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External links
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