The map library

9 Likes

this is just my perspective, but i think you’re basically right: Nevada DEFINITELY encourages people to move here (no state taxes is a huge incentive, and also the very friendly business environment, tax-wise). There’s not anything that i know of that actively encourages those born here to leave, it’s just that i think people leave to see what the rest of the country has to offer. there’s only a few larger metropolitan areas (Reno/Sparks/Carson City, and Vegas), and the rest are all small rural towns, so that’s probably the largest locally-born population. As for Utah, i agree that it’s the large Mormon population there, with their stay-at-home values, that keeps their population of native-born residents more stable. Nevada has always been pretty transient by comparison.

14 Likes

Of course, lest we forget, once you’re out the front door, you’re still in the middle of the f***ing desert!
– Reuben Tishkoff

10 Likes

8 Likes

Something else I found while poking through similar data1 is that Nevada has a relatively high proportion of foreign-born residents. In all years available in this series, NV was ranked 5th or 6th in percentage of foreign-born population.2 So I’m guessing foreign-born workers (casinos? ranches?) and their foreign-born families make up a big part of the born-elsewhere cohort. Here’s a ranked chart for 2023:

  1. ACS State of Residence by Place of Birth Flows, single-year data for 2010, 2013-2019, 2021-2023.

  2. Other states in the top 6 for these years are California, New York, New Jersey, Florida, and Hawaii.

11 Likes

Reading this post about a historic Black town made me wonder about maps, and this one looked interesting:

15 Likes

I looked for Allensworth, CA and it was there!

11 Likes

On Trumpy wanting to rename the Gulf of Mexico

14 Likes
12 Likes

My spouse once wove a giant version of the Bünting map out of recycled fabric:

ETA a close-up of Jerusalem, made of felt:

(It’s stored in our basement)

20 Likes

That is gorgeous!

16 Likes

frikkin’ awesome, man!

i am wow!

16 Likes

I see and raise:

15 Likes

13 Likes

13 Likes
12 Likes

i know nothing of the source, but i note that florida and georgia appear to have swapped places!
20250109_174844

unless that’s part of the joke…

looks like portland and seattle are in montana and texass has swallowed utah!

13 Likes

I wonder why St Paul has a Drinking Bird?

drinking bird.Screenshot 2025-01-09 at 5.43.28 PM

12 Likes
9 Likes

The easy-to-use getaway

Planning a getaway? Maps can help! (but maybe not old maps) :wink:

7 Likes