100 Biggest Cities of the United States in the Jacksonian Era

Try to name the 100 biggest towns and cities in the United States in 1830, in the early years of the Jacksonian era.
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Population estimates mostly according to the US Census of 1830 (incomplete). Full list of sources used listed in this Pastebin.
Several of these communities no longer exist as independent towns or cities.
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Connecticut
10,180
New Haven
7,074
Hartford
5,018
Saybrook
4,805
Groton
4,456
Litchfield
4,335
New London
4,311
Danbury
4,226
Fairfield
4,092
Lyme
3,979
New Milford
3,853
Wethersfield
3,801
Greenwich
3,792
Norwalk
 
 
Delaware
6,628
Wilmington
 
 
District of Columbia
18,826
Washington
8,441
Georgetown
8,241
Alexandria
 
 
Georgia
7,303
Savannah
6,710
Augusta
 
 
Kentucky
10,341
Louisville
6,026
Lexington
 
 
Louisiana
46,082
New Orleans
Maine
12,598
Portland
4,214
Thomaston
3,980
Augusta
3,961
Hallowell
3,773
Bath
 
 
Maryland
80,620
Baltimore
4,427
Frederick
 
 
Massachusetts
61,392
Boston
13,895
Salem
8,783
Charlestown
7,592
New Bedford
7,510
Gloucester
7,202
Nantucket
6,784
Springfield
6,474
Lowell
6,375
Newburyport
6,138
Lynn
6,072
Cambridge
6,042
Taunton
5,247
Roxbury
5,149
Marblehead
5,008
Middleborough
4,758
Plymouth
4,530
Andover
4,228
Danvers
4,173
Worcester
4,158
Fall River
4,074
Dorchester
4,073
Beverly
3,974
Barnstable
3,896
Haverhill
Missouri
4,977
St. Louis
 
 
New Hampshire
8,026
Portsmouth
5,449
Dover
3,816
Gilmanton
 
 
New Jersey
10,953
Newark
7,710
Paterson
3,925
Trenton
 
 
New York
202,589
New York
24,209
Albany
12,406
Brooklyn
11,556
Troy
9,207
Rochester
8,668
Buffalo
8,323
Utica
6,424
Newburgh
5,392
Hudson
5,032
Poughkeepsie
4,486
Auburn
4,268
Schenectady
 
 
North Carolina
3,796
New Bern
3,791
Wilmington
 
 
Ohio
24,831
Cincinnati
Pennsylvania
80,462
Philadelphia
28,872
Northern Liberties
20,581
Southwark
13,394
Kensington
12,568
Pittsburgh
11,140
Spring Garden
7,704
Lancaster
6,822
Moyamensing
5,856
Reading
4,628
Germantown
4,312
Harrisburg
4,216
York
 
 
Rhode Island
16,833
Providence
8,010
Newport
6,857
Smithfield
5,529
Warwick
3,993
Scituate
3,851
Coventry
 
South Carolina
30,289
Charleston
 
 
Tennessee
5,566
Nashville
 
 
Virginia
16,060
Richmond
9,814
Norfolk
8,322
Petersburg
5,221
Wheeling
4,630
Lynchburg
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2 Comments
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Level 52
Dec 8, 2025
It's funny to see District of Columbia as a diamond lol, sadly Virginia wanted the land back
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Level 55
Dec 8, 2025
One of the many oddities of an early U.S. Missouri without the Platte Purchase territory also just looks really off.