This sf object contains historical population data for U.S. cities
with latitudes and longitudes of the cities. The data is drawn from the U.S.
Census. The data was compiled by Erik Steiner and Jason Heppler at the Center
for Spatial and Textual Analysis, Stanford University. See their
description
of the data for a fuller accounting of how the data was gathered.
Format
An object of class sf (inherits from tbl_df, tbl, data.frame) with 62197 rows and 13 columns.
References
U.S. Census Bureau and Erik Steiner, "United States Historical City Populations, 1790-2010," Spatial History Project, Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, Stanford University, https://github.com/cestastanford/historical-us-city-populations/.