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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 in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Massachusetts. At the 2020 census, the total population was 809,829, making it the third-most populous county in the state, and the eightieth-most populous in the country. It is part of the Greater Boston area (the Boston–Cambridge–Newton, MA–NH Metropolitan Statistical Area). The largest city in Essex County is Lynn. The county was named after the English county of Essex. It has two traditional county seats: Salem and Lawrence. Prior to the dissolution of the county government in 1999, Salem had jurisdiction over the Southern Essex District, and Lawrence had jurisdiction over the Northern Essex District, but currently these cities do not function as seats of government. However, the county and the districts remain as administrative regions recognized by various governmental agencies, which gathered vital statistics or disposed of judicial case loads under these geographic subdivisions, and are required to keep the records based on them. The county 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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Cemeteries
Cemeteries of Essex County, Massachusetts, United States
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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