Biggest Cities of the Mexican Cession and Texas in 1840

    1. El Paso del Norte (Ciudad Juárez / El Paso)		5,000				(8)
    2. Santa Fe								5,000				(4)
    3. Galveston								3,000				(1)
    4. Los Angeles							2,240				(13)
    5. Albuquerque							2,000				(4)
    6. San Antonio							2,000				(1)
    7. Laredo								1,800				(2 / 3) less than 2,000, 1,891 in 1847
    8. Houston								1,500				(1)
    9. Ranchos de Taos							1,500				(6) 300 houses, est. households as five each
    10. San Augustine							1,500				(1)
    11. Zuni Pueblo							1,500				(11)
    12. Socorro								1,100				(7)
    13. Algodones								1,000				(4)
    14. San Elizario							1,000				(7)
    15. Santa Barbara							900				(12)
    16. Laguna Pueblo							800				(11)
    17. Tomé									800				(4)
    18. San Jose								750				(14)
    19. Santo Domingo Pueblo					750				(11)
    20. Taos									700				(5)
    21. Ysleta								700				(7)
    22. Tucson								600				(10)
    23. Austin								550				(1)
    24. Monterey								550				(9)
    25. Acoma Pueblo							500				(11)
    26. Bernalillo								500				(4)
    27. Isleta Pueblo							500				(11)
    28. Nacogdoches							500				(1)
    29. San Miguel del Vado						500				(4)
    30. Victoria								500				(1)


    • (1) https://books.google.nl/books?redir_esc=y&num=19&hl=nl&id=zfUDAQAAIAAJ
    • (2) https://www.republicoftheriogrande.org/copy-of-unit-3
    • (3) https://elmanana.com.mx/estado/2020/6/15/nuevo-laredo-asi-fue-como-se-fundo-nuestro-municipio-hace-172-anos-28634.html
    • (4) https://archive.org/details/sim_new-mexico-historical-review_1959-07_34_3/page/200, page 200
    • (5) https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/_Topics/history/_Texts/WEBSFT/1*.html - Don Fernando de Taos
    • (6) https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft72900812&chunk.id=d0e5153&toc.depth=1&brand=ucpress – Ranchos de Taos
    • (7) https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/la-isla
    • (8) https://archive.org/details/mexicanfrontier10000webe
    • (9) https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/History/State_and_Local_History/Competing_Visions%3A_A_History_of_California_%28Cherny_Lemke-Santiangelo_and_Castillo%29/03%3A_Mexican_Californios-_Conflict_and_Culture_18211846/3.03%3A_Social_Relations_in_Mexican_California
    • (10) https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1mmftg6.19 – Tucson – 465 people in 1831 and 760 in 1848, interpolate to 600
    • (11) https://www.jstor.org/stable/3630572?seq=1
    • (12) https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Santa-Barbara-population-from-1788-to-2000-according-to-official-records-see-text-for_fig2_242149597
    • (13) https://www.laalmanac.com/history/hi01b.php
    • (14) https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/San_Jos%C3%A9