12 Bille—A History of the Danes in America. 
tiers of counties in Wisconsin, and directly across the state of 
Minnesota at about the latitude of St. Paul. This settlement is 
not nearly as compact as the Norwegian. 
The Hollanders have established their largest settlement in 
the southwestern part of the southern peninsula of Michigan. 
The Polanders and Bohemians have their largest settlements in 
the city of Chicago. The Belgian settlement is located about 
Green Bay, Wisconsin. France and Scotland have their settle¬ 
ments in and about the city of New York. The Welsh settle¬ 
ment includes the following counties in Pennsylvania: Carbon, 
Lackawanna, Luzerne, Northampton, and Schuylkill. 
This tendency of the Norwegians to concentrate, and of the Danes 
to scatter, is not of recent origin; for ever since the Norwegians 
have commenced to emigrate in any considerable numbers they 
have been as closely or even more closely concentrated than they 
are at present; while the Danes have been more widely scattered 
than they are now, as will be seen from the following tables: 
NorwegiansGreatest number in four states. 
1850. 
1860. 
1870. 
1880. 
1890. 
Total in United States 
12,778 
43,995 
114,243 
181,729 
322,665 
Illinois .... 
2,500 
4,891 
11,880 
16,970 
30,339 
Wisconsin 1 2 . 
8,000 
21,442 
40,046 
49,349 
65,666 
Minnesota 
8,425 
35,940 
62,521 
101,199 
Iowa. 
. . . 
5,688 
17,554 
21,586 
27,078 
Danes .— Greatest number in four states. 
1860. 
1870. 
1880. 
1890. 
Total in U. S. 
New York . 
Wisconsin . 
Utah. 
California . 
9,962 
1,196 
1,150 
1,824 
1,328 
Illinois . . 
Wisconsin . 
Iowa . . . 
Utah . . . 
30,098 
3,711 
5,212 
2,827 
4,957 
Illinois . . 
Wisconsin. 
Iowa . 
Utah . . 
64,196 
6,029 
8,797 
6,901 
6,071 
132,543 
12,044 
13,885 
15,519 
14,133 
1 As the Norwegians were not given separately by counties in U. S. cen¬ 
sus before 1890, it is impossible to obtain any definite statistics on this point 
until 1890. 
2 O. M. Nelson, History of Scandinavians in America , p. 134. 
