Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1911 — Population Center Moves to Point in Monroe County. [ARTICLE]

Population Center Moves to Point in Monroe County.

A marker denoting the exact spot of the center of population of the United States, which is in Monroe county, six miles southeast of Bloomington, is being erected by a Bloomington newspaper.- .- : .... An official report from Washington; just received, says, “The center of population, which may be defined as the center of gravity of all the inhabitants, is situated in latitude 39 degrees 4 minutes and longitude 86 degrees ip minutes. It is in the southeaste/n part of Monroe county, six miles from Bloomington. In 1900 it was in latitude 39 degrees 10 minutes and longitude 85 degrees 49 minutes. Its movement from census to census is a net resultant of all the various movements of the people, east, west, north and south.' In the past ten years this center has moved south about seven miles and west about twenty-seven miles. “The westward movement was nearly double that of the decade before, but much less than that of earlier periods, since the average westward movement per decade has been fortyseven miles. During the past century this center has kept very close to the thirty-ninth parallel, in some cases being a few minutes north of it, in others slightly to the south.