235 Years of American Settlement

Drag the year to watch the frontier cross the Mississippi, the Great Plains fill by 1890, and then empty again through the mid-twentieth century. Click any county to pin its full 235-year trajectory.

Census Year 1790 U.S. population · 3,929,214
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