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Originally Posted by plinko

Johnstown 279951 233848 154298

Where is this?

Pennsylvania, Cambria and Somerset counties. Impressive, right? And pay attention on Scranton, Wilkes-Barre and Wheeling-Steubenville. If they kept growing at national average, they would be massive metropolises today.

Scranton-Wilkes, for example, relatively peaked in 1920 or so. They would be over 2 million people today.

Originally Posted by SIGSEGV

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnstown,_Pennsylvania

I believe the MSA is the county though, which doesn't match those population numbers. Maybe the MSA was bigger in the past?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambri...,_Pennsylvania

Yes. By the 1950 definition, it was a two-county metro area. As we're talking of 1900, I would guess Cambria county only would be more appropriate, but still, Johnstown would be at 104k. Quite impressive.