Wikipedia and Census Data

Apparently someone in the Wikipedia project did an import of census data.

I only found this out by accident in Google during a lookup involving my home town Stony Creek, New York. I find it amusing that someone, apparently the Census Bureau, still considers Harrisburg and Knowelhurst to be “communities”. Perhaps in the early 1900s this was true but these days both are just a few houses spread apart on a dead-end rural road. You wouldn’t know the places were a unit or even had a name if someone had not labeled them on a map long ago. I find this and the census data amusing.

For the curious wikipedia also has census data for New Paltz, NY. Lets just say the average population density is a tad higher. It doesn’t seem like they include college students in the population tally.