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1790-1890 Federal Population Censuses - Catalog of NARA Microfilm

From the National Archives & Records Administration.

1790-1890 Federal Population Censuses Catalog of NARA Microfilm - Online Version

From the National Archives & Records Administration.

Ancestry.com - 1880 United States Federal Census $

Includes research tips and information about the questions asked in each census. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

Ancestry.com - Selected U.S. Federal Census Non-Population Schedules, 1850-1880 $

This database contains U.S. federal non-population schedules from 1850-1880 for the following states: Alabama, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington Territory. Non-population schedules contained in this database include agriculture, industry/manufacturers, social statistics, and supplemental schedules. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

Ancestry.com - U.S., Schedules of Special Census of Indians, 1880 $

Original sources: Schedules of Special Census of Indians, 1880. Microfilm publication M1791, 5 rolls. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790-2007, Record Group 29. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

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Ancestry.com Wiki - 1880 U.S. Census

This article originally appeared in "Census Records" by Loretto Dennis Szucs and Matthew Wright in The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy. This wiki is a free service of Ancestry.com.

Clues in Census Records, 1850-1930

From the National Archives & Records Administration.

Family History Daily - This Curious 1880 Census Recorded “Idiots,” the Insane, the Sick and the Poor $

FamilySearch - Census descriptions of geographic subdivisions and enumeration districts, 1880 : NA T1224

Microfilm of original records at the National Archives and Records Service, Washington, D.C. The following census descriptions are permanently missing from the National Archives and the Family History Library collections: Alabama, Arizona Territory, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Montana Territory, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. Gives names of persons employed as enumerators and descriptions of their subdivisions.

FamilySearch - FHL Catalog - United States - Census - 1880

FamilySearch - United States Census, 1880 ^FREE

Names index to population schedules listing inhabitants of the United States in 1880. This was the twelfth census conducted since 1790.

FamilySearch Wiki - United States Census 1880

FamilySearch Wiki - United States Census Defective Schedules

Findmypast - 1880 U.S. Federal Population Census $

IPUMS USA | 1880 Enumeration Form

Sample picture of the form.

IPUMS USA | 1880 Enumerator Instructions

IPUMS USA | Census Questions (1880)

MyHeritage - 1880 United States Federal Census $

MyHeritage has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. The United States Census of 1880, conducted during June 1880, determined the resident population of the United States to be 50,189,209 - an increase of 30.2 percent over the 1870 Census.

United States Census Bureau - Decennial Census by Decades - 1880