That prompted the 1800 Census Act and the first official census on 10 March 1801. Most of the data has been lost. ... 2001: With 41 questions, it was the biggest census form yet, ...

FRESNO, Calif. This is what the census form looked like in 1860 when the first census was conducted in the newly incorporated Fresno County. "There were 4623 people within the county boundaries in ...