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The banked decennial series (this history lk-rem-population); intercensal rates computed and labelled as computations
Eleven censuses make five eras, and the eras — not the anomalies — are the town's demographic story: a railroad village that tripled, a mid-century peak, a long slide, a seesaw, and a rebound to the largest count in its record. The incorporation era, 1910–1930: 227 to 333 to 522 — gains of 46.7 per cent and 56.8 per cent between censuses (computed), the steepest sustained growth in the series, as the two-railroad village filled its plat. The maturity era, 1930–1960: 522 to 567 to 736 to 757 — gains of 8.6, 29.8 and 2.9 per cent (computed), ending at the pre-2010 peak of 757 in 1960. The decline era, 1960–1980: 757 to 712 to 629 — losses of 5.9 and 11.7 per cent (computed), the decades of the farm consolidation the town's plan names and the railroads' fading. The seesaw era, 1980–2000: 629 to 655 to 567 — a gain of 4.1 per cent, then the series' largest decline, 13.4 per cent (computed), the banked anomaly of the 1990s. The rebound era, 2000–2020: 567 to 786 to 879 — a gain of 38.6 per cent, the series' largest, then 11.8 per cent (computed), carrying the town past its 1960 peak to its record count. The two anomalies the banked article works — Howard's 350 for 1900 against 227 in 1910, and the unexplained 2000–2010 swing — stand where they were banked and are not re-argued here; this article's rates begin where the federal series begins, at the first census of the incorporated town.