----------------------------Original message---------------------------- We have a patron who wants the land area of Ward 1, 4, and 11 in New York City in 1850. This has to do with calculating the population density. The population by ward is given in the 1850 population census (Dubester 30), but they don't list the area like they have in more recent censuses for political and census geography divisions. Even a map of that time showing the ward boundaries would be good as long as it was at a large enough scale to make area estimates. Also, did the wards stay the same over the years? Looking in the Encyclopedia of NYC (p. 1236-7) and the Historical Atlas of NYC (p. 80-81), it seems that they kept subdividing the northern one over the years, but for #'s 1,4, and 11 you could probably get the area for the 1830s or the 1890s and it would be the same as for 1850. Is this true? If anyone has a lead (or the answer!), I'd appreciate it. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mark Thomas | Yet there's not a train I Perkins Library, Duke University | wouldn't take 919-660-5853 / FAX: 919-684-2855 | No matter where it's going [log in to unmask] | --Edna St. Vincent Millay