Aroostook County Census Information

Census Records

The US Constitution requires that a federal census be conducted every ten years; the federal census has been conducted since 1790. The records from 1790-1920 are made publicly available by the US National Archives; later census records are inaccessible for privacy reasons. (In addition to the federal censuses, Maine also conducted its own special census in 1837.)

The USGenWeb Census Project is undertaking the task of transcribing the census data from every available Federal census and making it available on the web. There are also some individuals who have transcribed parts of censuses for their own use, and generously shared it with us.

Here are the available sites on census records:

Aroostook County Census Records

The sites related to census records are of two types: scanned images of the records, and transcriptions of those records. These are related to Aroostook County.

Scanned images of original census records of Aroostook County

1860 Federal Census Records -- complete images on-line

Transcriptions of census records of Aroostook County

1820 Census of Madawaska Settlement -- then part of Penobscot County, Maine and York County, New Brunswick; includes communities on both banks of the upper St.John River valley in what are now Aroostook Co., Maine and Madawaska Co., New Brunswick.
1820 Census of Houlton and New Limerick Plantations -- transcription of the census by Bradbury
1830 Census of Madawaska Settlement -- then part of York County; includes all the communities and settlements along both sides of the St.John River from Van Buren, Maine to the St. Francis River, plus settlements along the Green, Madawaska, and Fish Rivers.
1837 State Census Records
1840 Federal Census Records -- a complete transcription!
1850 Federal Census Records -- a partial transcription
1850 Federal Census Records -- a complete transcription!
1860 Federal Census Records -- ongoing transcription effort of the US GenWeb Census project.

See also the Aroostook GenWeb's Towns page for links to census records, sorted by town.

Maine Census Records

Maine Census information -- not a transcribing project, but Rootsweb's listing of all the known on-line and off-line Maine Census records
Maine's Special 1837 Census
USGenWeb archive page on the Maine Census -- part of the US GenWeb's census transcription project
Transcribed census records for Maine -- courtesy of Mark E. Reed,webmaster of the Census Online project

General Census Records -- Commercial Sites

The following commercial sites provide census records for a fee. They have records for Aroostook county.

Census records scanned -- a commercial site that will make data available
Allcensus -- a commercial site that will make CD-ROMs containing images of the Federal Census pages available by Year, State, and County

This page last updated Friday, 22-Apr-2016 22:41:44 MDT.

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