Posts Tagged ‘census’

March 6 2010

1-person towns to Census: Count me in

Mary Faye Shaffer, foreground, points out items in her general store as she sits at the wood stove with regular customers in New Amsterdam, Ind. Shaffer says she counts at least 19 people in town, but both a census estimate from last summer and the 2000 census count say the town has just one resident. The Census Bureau estimates that there are four incorporated towns in the U.S. with just one person. But residents in three of those places say they aren’t the only ones living there.


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March 6 2010

Census count kicks into high gear

Red Lake tribal leaders in Minnesota meet to coordinate events for census awareness activities as a film crew shoots for a training video. As the 2010 census drive kicks into high gear, the government is making an extra effort to reach people in "hard to count" areas, including reservations.The Census Bureau’s once-a-decade population count kicks into high gear this month when the government agency mails out forms to more than 130 million addresses across the country.


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November 24 2009

Kentucky Census Worker Committed Suicide, Investigators Say

FRANKFORT, Ky. — A Kentucky census worker found naked, bound with duct tape and hanging from a tree with “fed” scrawled on his chest killed himself but staged his death to make it look like a homicide, authorities said Tuesday.

Bill Sparkman, 51, was found Sept. 12 near a cemetery in a heavily wooded area of southeastern Kentucky. A man who found the body in the Daniel Boone National Forest has said Sparkman also was gagged and had an identification badge taped to his neck.



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