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2000 – 2020
A count that jumps by a third in a decade asks first about the line, not the people — and here the line barely moved. The Census Bureau's Gazetteer area for the town was 0.98 square miles in 2010 and 1.04 square miles in 2020; the 2000 figure carried in the banked spine is 0.75 square miles. So between 2000 and 2010 the measured area did grow — by roughly a third on the Gazetteer vintages — at the same time as the count grew by 35.2 percent, and an annexation or a measurement change in that decade is a live candidate explanation for part of the jump. But no annexation ordinance, no boundary-change filing, and no town statement explaining either jump was reached, and the leg does not promote a candidate into a cause. Between 2010 and 2020 the area grew again, slightly, while the count fell by 14.4 percent — the opposite of what a shrinking boundary would produce. The boundary discipline therefore prints as an open question with its settlers named: the town's annexation ordinances and the Census Bureau's Boundary and Annexation Survey filings for 2000–2020 would settle how much of the 2010 jump was line and how much was people.