EWP 2-5-1 Yr 1940 Report of the Survey Committee on Long Range Planning.pdf

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REPORT
of the
SURVEY COMMITTIR
on
LONG-RANGE PLANNING
for

LOUDOUN COUNTY
PART I & II
January 1940

January 29, 1940

Dr. Sidney B. Hall,
Superintendent Public Instruction,
State Department of Education,
Richmond, Virginia.
Dear Dr. Hall:
Complying with your request of September 25th 1939,
the committee appointed by you for making the survey of
Loudoun County herewith submits its report.
Very truly yours,

Fort Jenkins
Director Administration, Finance and Research

R. C. Haydon
R. 0. Haydon
Superintendent Schools
Prince William County

Raynond V. Long
Director School Buildings.

LOUDOUNCOUNTY

PART I

********

January 1940

LOWOUN COUNTY
PART I
In planning buildings and other school facilities the design
capacities should be determined in part by the types and amounts
of instruction to be provided. However, these considerations cannot
be developed until some perception of the basic numbers of persons
who must be offered such facilities in the future is formed. This
study is intended to point out those factors influencing future
populations and thus to furnish a base for school planning.
POPULATION
In 1930 51.5 percent of the people of Loudoun County were
classified as farm dwellers. The remaining 48,5 percent were
classed as rural non-farm persons, of which 41 percent lived in
the ten small incorporated towns.
The county population as shown by the census has been as
follows:
1890
1900
1910
1920
1930

23,274
21,948
21,167
20,577
19,852

The population trends in Loudoun County have differed considerably from those in the adjoining counties, Loudoun's population
experienced a steady decrease from 1890 to 1950, the decrease during
that period being 19 percent of the 1890 population, In Clarke County
the decrease was 11 percent of the 1890 population, In Fauquier County
there was an increase from 1890 to 1900 followed by a decrease to 1930,
which amounted to 6 percent of the 1890 population. Prince William
County experienced a steady growth from 1890 to 1900 amounting to 42
percent of the 1890 population. In Warren County the population of
1930 was essentially the same as that of 1890g
The internal composition of the decline in the Loudoun County
population is shown in the following table:

In 1930 the population distribution by races was as follows:
- 462
4,350
4,812
Colored
a 263
15:502
15:765
White
e Ohar
1930
1920
Race
From 1920 to 1930 the population chenges by race were as follows:
256
266
351
Waterford
559
359
379
Round
Hill
747
549
388
Purcellville
298
283
263
Middleburg
239
167
198
Lovettsville
1,640
1,545
1,597
Leesburg
'119
'131
'158
Hillsboro
295
287
51.5
Hamilton
1930

1920

1910

Town

Populations of the incorporated towns varied as follows:
to the Magisterial Districts of Broad Run, Jefferson and Lovetteville.
All the county!s population loss from 1910 to 1930 was confined
Purcellville.
(e) Includes the incorporated Towns of Hamilton and
(d) Includes the incorporated Town of Middleburg.
(c) Includes the incorporated Town of Lovettsville,
(b) Includes the incorporated Town of Leesburg,
Round Hill and Waterford.
(a) Includes the incorporated Towns of Hillsboro,
2x256
3,999
4,116
2578.0
3,979
Mount Gilead (e)
3032
3,671
3,676
3,533
Mercer (d)
5510
4 to
2,481 - 3032)
2,768
3,032
Lovettsville
(c)
4,006
5,947
4,006
27760
Leesburg
(b)
2,872
2,929
3,147
Jefferson (a)
3,141
3,470
Broad Run
2,823 3470) 647.00 3470 V9,
,
1930
1920
1910
District
POPULATIONS HY MAGISTERIAL DISTRICTS

District

White

Colored

Total
,

Broad Run
Jefferson
Leesburg
Lovettsville
Mercer
Mount Gilead

2,274
2,329
3,140
2,575
2,253
3.131

549
543
866
'106
1,418
868

2,823
2'872
46006
2,481
3,671
3,999
,

Totals

15,502

4,550

19,852

Natural Gain Prior to the
1930 Geneus
Natural Gains for the ten-and-a-quarter year period between
the Censuses of 1920 and 1930 were as follows:

Year

Births

1920
358
1921
383
1922
348
1923
326
1984
358
1925
314
1926
350
1927
307
1988
342
1929 a
341.
1930(3 Nos. ) 73
Totals 3,500

Recorded Natural Gains
January 1, 1920 to April 1. 1930
White
Gains
Deaths
Births
176
201
199
179
146
200
216
183
192
183
43

182
182
149
147
212
114
134
124
150
158
30

1,918

1,582

151
145
138
146
126
130
181
111
113
97
27
1,505

Colored
Deaths

Gains

65
84
74
91
73
72
64
79
82
74
15

86
61
64
55
53
56
57
32
31
23
12

773

532

The tabulation above gives the total births and deaths recorded in the
County. These figures should be adjusted to give the approximate numbers of
births to mothers who were residents of the county and the approximate numbers
of deaths of actual county residents irrespective of where the births or deaths
occurred. The relationship between resident and recorded births and deaths is
known only for the years 1935, 1936 and 1937. Assuming that the average relationships for those three years hold approximately throughout the decade
under consideration, and estimating resident figures on this assumption, the
natural gains from approximate resident fi xree are as given below. Comparing
these resident natural gains with census losses, approximate migration figures
are obtained:
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