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THE POPULATION SERIES, STATED IN THE SPINE
The series, from the federal decennial counts, with its one internal conflict printed where it stands: 1880, 754 — the town's first returned count, three years after incorporation. Then 885 in 1890; 1,037 in 1900; 1,003 in 1910; 1,031 in 1920; 1,137 in 1930; 1,178 in 1940; 2,102 in 1950; 2,044 in 1960; 2,006 in 1970; 2,051 in 1980; 2,061 in 1990; 2,274 in 2000; 2,144 in 2010; and 2,096 in 2020, the last from the redistricting data of Public Law 94-171 (2020 Decennial Census Redistricting Data, U.S. Census Bureau, 2021). The figures before 2000 are carried here as the published decennial tables give them; their verification volume by volume is the Population leg's settle, named in this build's note, and no figure in this article merges a count with an estimate. Howard's own two figures for 1900 conflict with each other and are resolved here only by the series: his towns entry prints 1,037 for the census of 1900 — the series' figure — while his Lincoln Township section prints a 1900 township population of 1,599 "including Walkerton 885," the 885 being the series' 1890 count carried into a 1900 sentence; both printings stand in this build as Howard made them, and the series governs the year. His informant's estimate for 1907 — Nicoles' 1,500 — is printed in the 1907 article above as what it is, a contemporary local estimate, not a count, and is not merged into the series; re-dated to its vintage, it claims the town grew by nearly half between the 1900 count and 1907, a claim the 1910 count of 1,003 does not support, and it stands as the record of how the town felt about itself in 1907 rather than of how many it held. The 2020 town, by the same census's Demographic Profile, held 747 households in 817 housing units, with a median age of 34.6 years (2020 Decennial Census Demographic Profile, DP1). The township around the town is a separate series — 1,599 in 1900 on Howard's printing, the town then just over half of it — and stands apart in Population, where Lincoln Township's full table belongs.