Gallery: Fascinating Old Census Maps, Updated for a Modern America
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Thanks to satellite data and other sources, the modern map of waterways is incredibly detailed.
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Yau's map of forested areas has far more detail than the 1870 version (next slide).
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But the pattern is similar.
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The 2015 map shows pockets where the population of males (blue) or females (red) is higher than average.
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In the 1870 version, western territories had an abundance of males.
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Yau's map of people born to foreign parents, according to the 2010 Census.
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The 1870 map of foreign parentage.
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Detail from a chart of occupations based on 2010 Census data.
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The 1870 version of the occupation chart.
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Contemporary data on mortality from circulatory disease.
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Mortality from malaria, mapped in the 1870 atlas.
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Cover page of the 1870 Statistical Atlas.
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