1816 Map of the United States
‘Is the lake Michigan/Illinois/Indiana area just mis-mapped here or were the territories realigned later?
Both. Illinois was still a territory, so it had a bit of adjustment when it became a State, but the Mississippi’s path also isn’t exactly right. Many period maps place Lake Michigan further east than it actually was, and the northern borders of Ohio and Indiana would both be reworked after Michigan became a State’
Japanese population by U.S. state in 1940 (printed 1942)
‘Be nice to see Hawaii. Colorado and Utah surprise me. I guess not too many more in Utah after the internment camps :(
157,905 in 1940, the largest ethnic/racial group in the territory, but less than half of the total population’
Counties in the United States with African-American majority populations (2010)
‘Fun fact: There’s an ancient seabed right where you see that sort of red swoop, which is hyper fertile. Because it’s such good farmland that area had many plantations and many slaves. When the slaves were freed many stayed in that area either due to lack of economic opportunity to move or because that area had become their home/they had worked that land for generations and had a deep connection to it. So now demographic data actually exactly reveals an ancient geographic feature’
Dot population distribution of the African American and Hispanic populations in the contiguous United States (2010)
Map comparing the Black and Hispanic populations in the United States (2010)
‘But hispanic isn’t a race? You can be black and hispanic. The Latin American countries are just as much immigration societies as the US, you have black, white, asian, native, etc. people there and mixes of all of these’
Most common self reported European ancestries in U.S. states (2017)
‘What I think is interesting is the states that have German in the top 2 and the states that have Italian in the top 2 are almost mutually exclusive (only Pennsylvania has both). Those 2 groups of states cover almost the whole US– only the northern 3 New England states and about half the former Confederate states have neither ancestry in the top 2’
Place names that contain the word ‘Peak’, ‘Mountain’, ‘Ridge’, ‘Plain’ and ‘Field’ in the United States
‘Awww, I can clearly see my beloved home region, the Texas Hill Country, where any spot of land that rises higher than a one-story home gets to be a “mountain”
I mean there is both a “mountain” and “peak” in central florida. Texas hill country is like the himalayas compared to central florida
I lived in the Daytona Beach, FL area for a while.
But there was a small town called Holly Hill not far away. I figured it was worth a shot, gotta be a hill there right? I drove around for an hour looking for a hill before I gave up and went to Popeye’s. I assume it was named after a person Ms. Holly Hill’
1945 map of the Mississippi River Basin - by Edwin L. Sundberg
‘Awesome share, thanks! I like seeing this sort of non-contemporary map.
The Mississippi River, along with all the feeder rivers which make up the broader basin, has been very important to the development of the United States’
1802 map of the United States / Aaron Arrowsmith
‘Michigan looks like what happens when there’s a minute left on the exam and you realize you forgot an entire page of free-response questions’
1938 Japanese pictorial map of the United States
‘Can we take a moment to appreciate how large those pigs are’–MasterOfMustard
1893 railroad map of the United States and the surrounding area
‘Imagine if the US just improved upon this instead of embracing the car. So much money is spent to maintain roads every year’–boesno
1890 Population Density of the United States in Six Degrees (published 1892)
‘Looks like a high population density from Ohio through Pennsylvania in that era. Interesting’–wmessner283
The best farmland in the United States
‘Is Iowa just a big giant farm?’–RawPinkFlesh
1884 map of the United States showing the Relative Average Density of Existing Forests
‘Big chunk of Idaho unexplored!’–dance-slut
Movement of slaves in the United States between 1790 and 1860 (published 1939)
1871 Railroad map of the United States
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‘This is fascinating, looking at “proposed” railroads and the chart of time and distance, before “railroad time” was even a thing yet. All those local times!’–Kendota_Tanassian
Size comparison of Mongolia with the United States
‘Size doesn’t matter’–ApplelypseNow
Trip Planning Map Of The United States, 1962
‘The zoom made me orgasm … Twas quite a mighty zoom’
United States Presidential Election Results 1952-2012
“Blue: Democratic
Red: Republican
Dark Green: Independent
Pink: American Independent”
Contiguous United States taking a bite out of Alaska
“This map is from a fake Time Magazine cover by design student Ricky Linn in 2010; titled: The Obesity Epidemic in America”–AJgloe
Map of the United States and Mexico (1859)
“From the latest issue (Autumn 2017) of International Map Collectors’ Society Journal www.imcos.org/journals/
One of the maps included in an interesting article: The Changing American West.
Some features shown: The proposed territory of Colona and Jefferson, a Big Nebraska territory, and the proposed territory of Arizona from the southern part of New Mexico”–AJgloe
Native Americans in the United States
“Native tribally-administered land bases, as opposed to where Native American live”–gelatin_biafra
3D Population Density of the contiguous United States
“These maps always skew south Florida (and probably others) a bit. The 3 SF counties of Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach are, geographically, very large, but they are only populated on a narrow strip near the coast. The western 2/3rd of each of these counties are uninhabited to any practical extent”–jimibulgin
144 counties have half of the population of the United States total 3,142 counties
