US Populous Cities 1880 Quiz

Population	City	State
1,206,299		NY
847,170		PA
566,663		NY
503,185		IL
362,839		MA
350,518		MO
332,313		MD
244,139		OH
233,959		CA
216,090		LA
160,146		OH
156,389		PA
155,134		NY
147,293		(DC)
136,508		NJ
123,759		KY
120,722		NJ
116,340		MI
115,587		WI
104,857		RI
90,758		NY
89,366		NY
78,682		PA
75,056		IN
63,600		VA
62,882		CT
59,475		MA
58,291		MA
56,747		NY
55,785		MO
52,669		MA
51,792		NY
51,647		OH
51,031		NJ

Population	City	State
50,137		OH
49,984		SC
48,961		MA
46,887		MN
45,850		PA
43,350		TN
43,278		PA
42,478		DE
42,015		CT
41,659		NJ
41,473		MN
39,151		MA
38,678		OH
38,274		MA
37,409		GA
35,629		CO
34,555		CA
33,914		NY
33,810		ME
33,592		TN
33,340		MA
32,630		NH
32,431		MO
32,016		MI
30,999		NJ
30,762		PA
30,737		WV
30,709		GA
30,518		NE
29,910		NJ
29,720		KY
29,280		IN
29,259		IL
29,132		AL

Population	City	State
28,229		NJ
27,737		PA
27,643		CT
27,563		MA
27,268		IL
26,880		IN
26,845		MA
26,042		IN
25,769		PA
24,933		MA
23,339		PA
22,408		IA
22,254		IA
22,248		TX
21,966		VA
21,924		NY
21,915		MA
21,891		GA
21,831		IA
21,782		MA
21,656		VA
21,420		CA
21,213		MA
21,116		NY
20,769		UT
20,730		OH
20,693		MI
20,550		TX
20,541		NY
20,433		KY
20,207		NY
19,743		IL

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US Populous Cities 1880 Quiz

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	RubberDuck:	Jul 3rd, 2011 at 05:11 GMT		6 points
	That explains the sign in the opening credits on Welcome Back, Kotter.

	Rob42:	Jul 3rd, 2011 at 06:24 GMT		5 points
	Good quiz, although there were lots of cities in the northeast which I have never heard of.

	windog91589:	Jul 3rd, 2011 at 07:12 GMT		6 points
	Dang... totally forgot Brooklyn was a city back then :( Oh wells, great quiz. It really stretches your mind what was part of the US back then :)

	jago706:	Jul 3rd, 2011 at 13:09 GMT		2 points
	I typed in Harrisburg for Pennsylvania; turns out New Jersey has (or had?) a city of the same name

	Lindsay:	Jul 3rd, 2011 at 13:13 GMT		9 points
	I think the census made an error with the entry for "Harrisburg, NJ" - that's the population for Harrisburg, PA in 1880, and there is no Harrisburg, NJ that I'm aware of

	MMayes:	Jul 3rd, 2011 at 14:05 GMT		6 points
	This quiz shows how much we depended on water transport in those days. See how many river/lake cities were "big" that haven't kept up.

	pirate6711:	Jul 3rd, 2011 at 14:45 GMT		4 points
	I need to go back to spelling school and learn how to spell "Sacramento."

	Meltha:	Jul 3rd, 2011 at 14:49 GMT		6 points
	Thank you to The Music Man for the song "You Really Ought to Give Iowa a Try." I got all the Iowa cities from that alone.

	Pogues:	Jul 3rd, 2011 at 15:27 GMT		13 points
	Because this quiz is from 1880, not 2010 2Outs. People who guessed Brooklyn are those of us who are aware of this. The same with Allegheny, PA.

	whitesox23:	Jul 3rd, 2011 at 15:50 GMT		13 points
	When in doubt, Springfield.

	tulliuscicero:	Jul 3rd, 2011 at 16:14 GMT		3 points
	Too 19th-century-America-centric! Also, I will never cease to be filled with glee that Allegheny, PA (Now known as the Nort' Sahd n'at) had more people than Indianapolis, which is now bigger than all of Pittsburgh put together.

	mustango:	Jul 3rd, 2011 at 16:45 GMT		5 points
	Kind of weird thinking of a Texas where that was its largest city.

	bmo1616:	Jul 3rd, 2011 at 17:00 GMT		2 points
	Yeahhhh Fall River!

	adamnvillani:	Jul 3rd, 2011 at 17:22 GMT		5 points
	As I wrote before this was published, there was never a Harrisburg, NJ. That's the 1880 population for Harrisburg, PA.

	TAR2:	Jul 3rd, 2011 at 17:35 GMT		8 points
	@2OutsNoProb: easy there. You asked a question and Pogues politely answered it.

	NightOwl:	Jul 3rd, 2011 at 17:40 GMT		13 points
	@2OutsNoProb: Brooklyn was its own village, then city, from its founding in 1646 (as Breuckelen in Dutch) until it was incorporated into Greater New York in 1898. Contrary to your statement, many Brooklyn residents--and certainly the older ones--still pride themselves as a separate city with its own cultural and recreational institutions(including a library system separate from NYC), even though it has been part of NYC for over a hundred years. The Bronx and Queens never had quite that kind of development or autonomy; in fact, parts of the Bronx had been annexed by NYC even before 1898 consolidation when the city took its present form.

	Dralcoffin:	Jul 3rd, 2011 at 18:23 GMT		21 points
	It looks like 2OutsNoProb...(puts on sunglasses)...just struck out to end the inning.

	NightOwl:	Jul 3rd, 2011 at 18:38 GMT		18 points
	@2OutsNoProb: Can't you conceive of the possibility that some people know things that you don't? If this were physics or chemistry, I admit that I'd be drawing a blank as it's not my field, but I happen to have an interest in NYC history and over the years have been fortunate enough to acquire some knowledge on the subject and was sharing that information--a common and polite practice on Sporcle. It was you, after all, who asked a question about the Bronx and Queens, and I only attempted to answer it; I was assuming that it was a sincere question. It did not deserve a sarcastic response from you, and though you consider yourself "intelligent and highly education," you appear to have missed the lesson on courtesy.

	GiantsJoe2110:	Jul 3rd, 2011 at 18:48 GMT		4 points
	I thought about Utica but I didn't enter it because, like Congressman Gary Ackerman, "I don't do Utica."

	Den:	Jul 3rd, 2011 at 20:23 GMT		5 points
	@2Outs: Many people know Brooklyn was its own city because it's cropped up on many other Sporcle geography quizzes. That's the only reason I knew it. Don't be an ass.

	adamnvillani:	Jul 3rd, 2011 at 22:06 GMT		3 points
	Believe it or not, some of us have been studying history or geography and/or playing Sporcle games for a while.

	Tex17:	Jul 3rd, 2011 at 23:04 GMT		11 points
	Apparently, 2OutNoProb is actually an idiot.

	aroundandabout:	Jul 4th, 2011 at 00:03 GMT		12 points
	I would like to publicly apologise for creating this quiz...as it gave 2OutsNoProb a forum in which to spout his opinions. Forgive me sporcle?

	TAR2:	Jul 4th, 2011 at 00:43 GMT		4 points
	Just looked at 2OutsNoProb's stats. He seems to score between 22% and 55% on quizzes having to do with cities. Not saying I'm a whole lot better, but at least you can see why he's frustrated.

	NY_MOB:	Jul 4th, 2011 at 01:13 GMT		8 points
	@2OutsNoProb: When you do "reasonably" well on a quiz (like say 65th-85th percentile), you brag that you've "dominated" and are better and smarter than everyone else. But when you do poorly on a quiz, you accuse others of cheating or being "23 year old geeks from the other side of the world living at home with their parents" Do you know what this makes you? An ASSH*LE! So why don't you do the Sporcle world a favor and just stop with all the offensive comments.

	johnlk:	Jul 4th, 2011 at 03:16 GMT		1 point
	Harrisburg - still in Pennsylvania, not New Jersey.

	Patrick_Greylock:	Jul 4th, 2011 at 03:23 GMT		6 points
	@2Outs: You might be surprised how many people know to try it. To be fair, the only reason I knew to try Brooklyn is because I've taken so many Sporcle quizzes. But we have a biased sample size... Take any random bloke on the street, and then 57% might be excessive.

	klamb1121:	Jul 4th, 2011 at 05:17 GMT		3 points
	@Patrick_Greylock: The sporcle community is quite knowledgeable in very obscure areas of knowledge. I'd be elated if the entirety of America had 57% accuracy, but we all know that is not only untrue, but darn near impossible.

	pfrijiritr:	Jul 4th, 2011 at 18:55 GMT		5 points
	sniff They all grow so fast...

	PumaATTACK:	Mar 30th, 2012 at 20:36 GMT		2 points
	Who knew that Jersey could be so popular!