UCF Research Guides: Statistics, Demographics and Census: 1880-1910 Census

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Vol II - Report by States for Counties, Cities, and Other Civil Divisions (Florida) (pages 297-333)
e.g., Orange County's 25 precincts in 1910 included: South Orlando, Orlando, Maitland, Eatonville, Lake Maitland, East Sanford, Goldsboro, Sanford, Paola, Oviedo, Geneva, Chuluota, Gabriella, Longwood, Ocoee, Apopka, Zellwood, Bay Ridge, Oakland, Gotha, Pine Castle, Conway, Christmas, Winter Park, Lake Mary, Lockhart, Winter Garden, North Orlando, West Sanford (NOTE: Seminole County was established in 1913 from part of Orange County.)

Minor Civil Divisions (Florida) (pages 91-96)
e.g., Orange County's 19 precincts in 1900 included: Orlando, Eatonville, Lake Maitland, Goldsboro, Sanford, Paola, Oviedo, Geneva, Chuluota, Gabriella, Longwood, Ocoee, Apopka, Zellwood, Bay Ridge, Oakland, Gotha, Pine Castle, Conway, Fort Christmas, Winter Park

Minor Civil Divisions (Florida) (pages 83-87)
e.g., Orange County's 12 precincts in 1890 included: Orlando, Winter Park, Longwood, Sanford, Fort Reed, Apopka

Civil Divisions Less Than Counties (Florida) (pages 117-120)
e.g., Orange County had 4 unnamed precincts in 1880 and was not published by precinct in 1870

Measuring America: The Decennial Censuses from 1790 to 2000
Call Number: U.S. Documents Collection C 3.2:M 46/2
provides questionnaires and instructions, plus individual histories of each census. Pages 119-124 provide tables showing the "Population Items on Principal Census Questionnaires: 1790-2000."

Enumeration Forms (IPUMS USA)
"contains facsimile copies of the enumeration forms used in the decennial census of the United States from 1860 through 2000, and the American Community Survey (2000+)."

Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790-1920 by William Thorndale & William Dollarhide
Call Number: UCF Main Library Reference -- G1201.F7T5 1987
"shows county outline maps at ten year intervals, the old county boundaries being superimposed over the modern lines"

Census geography: Bridging data from prior years to the 2010 tract boundaries
provides "a Longitudinal Tract Data Base (LTDB), which provides public-use tools to create estimates within 2010 tract boundaries for any tract-level data (from the census or other sources) that are available for prior years as early as 1970."