Thanks to this video, the geography geek in me learned about Southwark, Northern Liberties, and Spring Garden, all absorbed into Philadelphia in 1854, but early in our nation’s history were at different points among the ten most populous cities in America. Love these videos!
-1949-50 is the most interesting part due to how all those Rust Belt cities just started nosediving. -Those newer top 10's don't garner the same respect as those from 1812-1945 (critical war years & innovation era). - No one (esp. in media) talks about how San Jose became the 2nd city in U.S. history to fall from the 1,000,000+ club. - Milwaukee was a "blink and you'll miss it" - Minneapolis & St. Louis (the 1st time) shouldn't had been on this list since they weren't US cities until 1803.
@@brinleynicholson4588not only that, but a rise in domestic problems in the 1960’s also led to the decline.
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Respect? From who? Democrats? Most of us conservatives don’t respect big cities at all! They are cesspools of crime and communist policies, who dictate the rest of society’s lives. No respect here.
People don’t think my city , San Antonio is as big as it is but it spreads out forever and our county is large that has a lot of room for further growth . The. “ Hill Country -plex” .. ( San Antonio -Austin ) forecasted to be one of the biggest soon.
The population of cities is very misleading. The Metropolitan area around those cites is more important as to how large the area is. For instance San Antonio has 1.4 million and the metro area is 2.6 million. Dallas is1.3 mil and the metro area is 7.9 million, over 3 times as large.
While you are correct that the metro population does give a better idea of the actual number of people within the area of a city, I also do think it is important to differentiate between a city's metro population and a city's proper population for the context of this video; since a metro can technically consist of multiple major cities. For example, the "Dallas" metro, or DFW metro to be more accurate, isn't just consisting of Dallas' population but also Fort Worth's which is a large city in it's own right (about at 950,000 residents I believe) and not mention Arlington's population as well. I think the purpose of this video was just to showcase the growth of individual cities respectively and not necessarily the "two for one" city situations that do occur in some other metro areas. I would love to see a video like this but with the metro population though.
yes for sure, you get the commuters from counties and near by states..like NYC and DC metro have multiple states, same thing woth los angeles county having far more people...yeah the "people inside the city at any given time rate"!!!
I think it is “directionally correct” in the sense that every city with a large population also has a large metropolitan area. For instance, Chicago has 2.7M people and a metro area population of 8.9M
Philly & 2 of its suburbs were in the top 10. Notice newcomer San Jose lost over 60K in 5 years. Since SJ and Austin pretty much has the same economy, Austin should be out of the top 10 in less than 20 years as well.
@@davidwalton3604for mere city population yes. But that doesn’t tell the whole picture. Metro area wise Miami is the largest in Florida and top 15 in the Us
Miami-Ft Lauderdale-WPB is just one big mass of urban sprawl. It stops at the North Palm Beach County line. It all used to be 305 area code when I was a pup. it's a bunch of small cities, more on the way. As a metro area, by now, over 7mil. people easy.
I believe Norfolk va should be in this list at the beginning in 1776. In 1753, Lt. Governor Robert Dinwiddie presented the growing city of 4,000 with a 41-inch (1,000 mm) long, 104 ounce silver mace.
@@davidwalton3604 Thank you, Mr Walton. I'd not seen your comment when I made mine just a few moments ago. Perhaps the channel provider has a different sense of the meaning of "population" that what would generally be considered to be legitimate.
Spring Garden, Northern Liberties, and Southwark were all incorporated into Philadelphia in 1853, when the city and the county of Philadelphia merged into a single unit.
When I visit Civil War battle fields, it strikes me that for some of the battles, the number of combatants would crack the top ten in population if the gathered forces were considered a city.
By far the bloodiest war in US history and the population was only around 30 million back then. The fact that 1 in 30 people died during the war is crazy to me. That doesn't even account for the much larger amount of people wounded.
I’m originally from China. I was born in a Chinese city that had 21 million permanent residents and 10 extra million of non-permanent residents, a total of 31 million. The traffic was insane.
The video's statistics are a bit misleading. The city of Los Angeles has about 4 million people, but greater Los Angeles is about 16 million. Greater New York is 23 million.
@@duckmercy11 You've never been to Los Angeles have you.... You think Los Angeles is 4 million people because the city of Los Angeles is 4 million? Do you know how crazy gerrymandered it is with strange tendrils of "Los Angeles" sticking out all over the place. I bet you think Disneyland is Los Angeles too? How about Beverly Hills and Santa Monica? Venice Beach is right next to Santa Monica, but it's Los Angeles. Culver City is not Los Angeles but it borders Venice. Please drive through and tell me you can tell the difference, where one starts and the other begins. No one else can including me, and I live here.
Inasmuch as the official population of the Minnesota territory was 6607 in 1850 I'm fairly confident that the video's claim that the population of Minneapolis was 4400+ in 1776 is erroneous. Do you have any idea, Mr Gozhda, how you arrived at that number for Mpls?
Why isn't Atlanta, Orlando and Miami on this list? Have you ever try to drive thru the cities? This list must be the city limits and not the metro area.
Thats crazy Milwaukee was in the top 10 largest cities list from 1961-1964 😲. I forgot tho that Milwaukee is a u.s. major city and they are on the that list.
*It's hard to know that New York was once not #1, but Phidephia seems like it was going to make a comeback but lost gas. Los Angeles came out of nowhere to take 2nd place though.*
Cahokia, a Native American city near modern day St. Louis, should be in first until around 1830-40. It’s an interesting city with cool history for any nerds like me who want to learn about it.
They don't list Cahokia because that's part of history they'd rather we don't know about. They only want us to know the HIS---STORY they present to us.
Size of the city doesn't mean much when people live in a neighboring suburb then travel there for work. That's why the Census now uses metropolitan areas since suburbs began to boom during the 50's during the baby boom era.
It does mean that population density is much lower, and therefore public utilities much more spread out. Every extra inch, every extra mile, is further from the path of sustainability.
Atlanta surpassed Miami two years ago to become number 8. It is projected to surpass Philly next year to become number 7. This video doesn't even show Atlanta or Miami.
@@duckmercy11 I just don't see the point of the video. The city limits of Juneau Alaska covers over 2,700 square miles which is bigger than some countries yet it only has 31,000 people. If city limits were relevant Juneau should be one of the most populated cities in America. But it's not. If people are interested in this video fine but it doesn't really mean much IMO. I mean if the NFL is looking for a new place to start a football team it probably wont be Juneau Alaska or a lot of the cities in this video for that matter. They will use MSA population because that is meaningful data.
I had to scroll too far down to find this comment, smh. When I saw MPLS on the list, I was like whaaa?!! Minnesota didnt exist at that time, hell the louisiana purchase, within which most of MInnesota's land is, didnt happen until the early 1800s
I don't think that's true. According to the video: 1. Boston, Salem, and Marblehead in the late 1780s 2. Philadelphia, Northern Liberties, and Southwark from the 1790s to the 1830s 3. New York, Brooklyn, and Albany (and later Buffalo) from the 1830s to the 1860s But yeah, before Texas it hadn't happened for a really long time.
@@MoneyC225 Pittsburgh only made the list around 1900, long after Philadelphia had annexed Northern Liberties and Southwark. So since the 1830s, three Pennsylvania cities have never been in the top 10 simultaneously, and before the 1830s, Pittsburgh was not a part of the three. I guess Pittsburgh would be included if we were talking about states that had more than 3 cities in the top 10 AT SOME POINT, but that's not how I interpreted OP's comment. Also, my first comment did leave out another Pennsylvania city that was simultaneously in the top 10 with two others: Spring Garden in the 1840s, yet another Philadelphia annex during the Act of Consolidation of 1854.
Would be interesting to see Chicago population vs places like Naperville and Schaumburg and Evanston. Looking at 2022 census data, Chicago had 2.7M people with a metro area population of 8.9M. Kinda crazy.
How was Cleveland #8 in 1776 when Cleveland wasn’t founded until 1796?! Marietta was the first city in Ohio and it wasn’t founded until 1788. Definitely makes the rest of your data a little suspect. 🤦🏻♂️
Los Angeles County is 3,000 sq miles and has roughly 17 million people in it at any given time so no wonder its traffic beats out metro NYC! LA city which in size is bigger than NYC (as is Chicago) should be doing more to keep people instead of garbage policies, the right mayor comes along and booms vertical housing and cleans that town up would keep LA right there but i think the county will suffer the same fate as the city. Basically what NYC is facing now as they did in the early 90's. I wonder if NYC will keep losing residents as well. I'll keep this vid in my saved favorites so 20 years from now maybe you can post updated figures!
@@davidwalton3604 By 1850, Louisville had become the tenth largest city in the nation, with more than 43,000 people. It was a major port, with a thriving boatyard industry. It had a new university, was building a Catholic cathedral, and was organizing the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. Its streets had been lighted by gas for more than a decade; businesses and wealthy homes had interior gaslights. Prestige suburbs were developing in the rural area south of Broadway. But the underground sewer system had reached a length of only one and one-half miles.
@@davidwalton3604 I think there’s debate of that census. Because I’ve seen Louisville listed as a top 10 in that era. They the 1840s the civil war and then drops off in the early 1900 with the close of the steamboat era.
