Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1920 — Center of Population Moving. [ARTICLE]

Center of Population Moving.

How many of us can telr’off-hand the exact center of the population of the United States? Every ten years the government calculates with great accuracy Just where this point Ues. The center moves westward at the rate of about fifty miles every ten years. When the center was first calculated in 1790 it lay three miles east of Baltimore, Md. In the first ten years it moved forty miles westward. By 1860 it had reached the State of Ohio and is today crawling slowly across Jhe State of Indiana; In 130 years, says Boys’ Life, the point has traveled westward about 600 miles.