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The land that would form Richmond County was ceded to the
English by the Creeks in the Treaty of Savannah on May 21, 1733,
confirmed and expanded by agreements of 1735 and 1736. By an
act of March 15, 1758, the colonial legislature created seven
parishes. The area of present-day Richmond County primarily fell
within St. Paul Parish (see
map). With the outbreak of the American Revolution, Whig
forces took control of government in Georgia. On Feb. 5, 1777,
they adopted the state's first constitution -- the Constitution
of 1777. Art. IV of that document transformed the existing colonial
parishes into seven counties, with Indian ceded lands forming
an eighth county. Richmond County consisted of all of St. Paul
Parish.
In 1790, the legislature created Columbia County from the
northern half of Richmond County.
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Useful Census
Links:
U.S. Census Bureau
U.S. Historical
Census Data Browser
Census 2000 (Georgia
Tech State Data and Research Center)
Georgia 2000 Information
System (University of Georgia ITOS)
Galileo
Demographic & Census Data
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Census |
Pop. |
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2000 |
199,775 |
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1990 |
189,719 |
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1980 |
181,629 |
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1970 |
162,437 |
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1960 |
135,601 |
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1950 |
108,876 |
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1940 |
81,863 |
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1930 |
72,990 |
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1920 |
63,692 |
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1910 |
58,886 |
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1900 |
53,735 |
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1890 |
45,194 |
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1880 |
34,665 |
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1870 |
25,724 |
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1860 |
21,284 |
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1850 |
16,246 |
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1840 |
11,932 |
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1830 |
11,644 |
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1820 |
8,608 |
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1810 |
6,189 |
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1800 |
5,475 |
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1790 |
11,317 |
- Source: U.S. Census Bureau
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