Although only those few states took advantage of the federal dollars, I
think it's only fair to tell about those states that took the 1885 and 1895
censuses on their own. One state that I am most familiar with is the state
of Iowa.

Regardless of which jurisdiction paid for the censuses, these are really
invaluable because they cover the time when we don't have the 1890 census.

Pat



]At 04:25 PM 2/17/2003 -0600, paul drake wrote:
>FYI
>
>1895 Census
>
>Although the 1890 census was largely destroyed and the only
>resource for
>that period is a census substitute based on tax records,
>etc, there is an 1895 federal census available for a few
>states.
>
>--------------------- On 3 March 1879, Congress passed an
>act that provided
>that any state or territory could conduct an inter-decennial
>census, which
>would be partially funded by the federal government.  Only
>the states of
>Colorado, Florida, and Nebraska, and the Dakota and New
>Mexico Territories
>availed themselves of the opportunity.
>
>
>The 1885 census was conducted using the official "census
>day" of 1 June 1885
>and consisted of four (4) schedules:
>--- Schedule 1: Inhabitants - Includes houses, inhabitants,
>their color,
>gender, age, relationship to head of household, marital
>status, occupation,
>place of birth, parents' birthplace, literacy, and any
>illness or
>disability.
>--- Schedule 2: Agriculture - Includes the name of the
>farmer, the duration
>of tenancy, acreage, farm value, expenses, value of farm
>products, type of
>livestock and numbers, and the type and quantity of produce.
>--- Schedule 3: Products of Industry - Includes the name of
>the owner or
>parent company, name of the business, amount of capital
>invested, number of
>employees, wages, hours, number of months operated each
>year, value of
>materials used, value of products, and the amount and type
>of power used in
>the production of the products.  (This was the last
>manufacturing census
>conducted.)
>--- Schedule 5: Mortality - Includes information about
>persons who died in
>the year ending 31 May 1885.  It includes the name, age,
>gender, color,
>marital status, place of birth, parents' birthplace,
>occupation, cause of
>death, and length of illness.
>
>
>What Records Exist?
>Copies of the census schedules were returned to the
>Department of the
>Interior in Washington, DC, and the originals were to have
>been retained by
>the states.  There are, however, missing areas and some
>missing schedules.
>
>
>--- Colorado.  The state copy exists at the Colorado State
>Archives in
>Denver; the federal copy is at the National Archives and
>Records
>Administration (NARA) and has been microfilmed as
>publication M158.
>Ancestry.com is in the process of posting the 1885 census
>database online at
>its subscription website.
>--- Dakota Territory.  The census for the northern half of
>the territory is
>located at the State Archives and Historical Research
>Library in Bismarck.
>A searchable online database for all counties in the
>northern Dakota
>Territory except Grand Forks County
>--- Florida.  The state copy is at the Florida State
>Archives at the Florida
>State Library and has been microfilmed.  William T.  and
>Patricia Martin
>have compiled an every-name index to this census which they
>sell bound for
>the entire state or at county level The federal copy also is
>at NARA and has
>been microfilmed as publication M84 (13 rolls).
>--- Nebraska.  The state copy is at the State Historical
>Society in Lincoln;
>the federal copy is at NARA and has been microfilmed as
>publication M352 (56
>rolls).  Ancestry.com has the 1885 census database online at
>its
>subscription website.  Also, visit the Nebraska USGenWeb
>site where a few
>counties have been transcribed by volunteers.
>--- New Mexico Territory.  The state copy is at the State of
>New Mexico's
>State records Center and Archives in Santa Fe; the federal
>copy is at NARA
>and has been microfilmed as publication M846 (6
>
>
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