Reprinted, with permission, from the blog Heirlooms Reunited
Note: sheets 285-288 are missing; hopefully nothing crucial was on them.
If you don't see a town you expect to see in the list of towns below, check to see if the town was incorporated later than 1820 and was known then by another name; or if the town changed its name after incorporation; or if it's now located in another County.
Click here to to return to the main page for the 1820 Census in Maine, which has links to the 9 Maine Counties then in existence and, from there, to the individual Towns of the County chosen.
Note: until the 1850 Census, enumerators listed names of heads of households only.
Click on the town name for more information, including links to the original documents and alphabetical lists of heads of households.
Washington County, Maine, today
Note: sheets 285-288 are missing; hopefully nothing crucial was on them.
If you don't see a town you expect to see in the list of towns below, check to see if the town was incorporated later than 1820 and was known then by another name; or if the town changed its name after incorporation; or if it's now located in another County.
Click here to to return to the main page for the 1820 Census in Maine, which has links to the 9 Maine Counties then in existence and, from there, to the individual Towns of the County chosen.
Click on the town name for more information, including links to the original documents and alphabetical lists of heads of households.
- Addison - 1820 Census tallies 519 inhabitants with about 86 households.
- Calais - 1820 Census tallies 418 inhabitants in approximately 64 households
- Cherryfield - 1820 Census tallies 240 inhabitants in about 40 households.
- Columbia - 1820 Census tallies 537 inhabitants in about 108 households; indexed incorrectly in places online as Columbia Falls, which was not established until 1863
- Dennysville (included Pembroke until 1832) - 1820 Census tallies 557 inhabitants in about 99 households
- Eastport - 1820 Census tallies 1937 inhabitants with about 362 households.
- Harrington - 1820 Census tallies 723 inhabitants in about 120 households
- Houlton Plantation or Holton Plantation
- Jonesboro - Jonesborough - 1820 Census tallies 675 inhabitants in about 129 households
- Lubec - 1820 Census tallies 1430 inhabitants in about 272 households
- Machias - 1820 Census tallies 2033 inhabitants in about 352 households
- New Limerick Plantation
- Perry - 1820 Census tallies 407 inhabitants with about 62 households.
- Robbinston - 1820 Census tallies 424 inhabitants with about 70 households.
- Steuben - 1820 Census tallies 780 inhabitants in about 138 households
- Plantation 3 (Charlotte area) - 1820 Census tallies 211 inhabitants in about 34 households
- Plantation 6 (Baring area) - 1820 Census tallies 61 inhabitants in about 13 households
- Plantation 7 (Alexander area) - 1820 Census tallies 74 residents in 11 households
- Plantation 9 (Trescott Township area)- 1820 Census tallies 264 inhabitants
- Plantation 10 (Edmunds Township area) -1820 Census lists 154 inhabitants
- Plantation 11 (Cutler area) - 1820 Census tallies 362 inhabitants in about 65 households
- Plantation 12 (Whiting area) - 1820 Census tallies 182 inhabitants in about 32 households
- Plantation 13 (Marion Township area) - 1820 Census lists 47 inhabitants
- Plantation 14 (Cathance Lake area) - 1820 Census tallies 29 inhabitants in 7 households
- Plantation 15 (Cooper area) - 1820 Census tallies 201 inhabitants
- Plantation 16 (Alexander area) - 1820 Census tallies 114 inhabitants
- Plantation 17 (Princeton area) - 1820 Census tallies 48 inhabitants
- Plantation 18 (Jacksonville area) - 1820 Census tallies 20 inhabitants in 4 households
- Plantation 20 (Crawford area) - 1820 Census tallies 50 inhabitants
- Township 19 (north of Columbia Falls, presumably all or part of T19 MD BPP) - 1820 Census tallies 34 inhabitants
- Township 23 (presumably in the Centerville Township area) - 1820 Census tallies 70 inhabitants
Washington County, Maine, in 1820; shown in green in the most easterly part of Maine
Washington County, Maine, today
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