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Facts & Figures:
Admission Dates and 1990 Land Area

  State Year of Admission
to Statehood
One of the
original 13 States

Total Area Rank

Land Area Square Miles
(1 square mile = 640 acres or 2.590 square kilometers)

1

Alabama

1819

 

30

50 750

2

Alaska

1959

 

1

570 374

3

Arizona

1912

 

6

113 642

4

Arkansas

1836

 

29

52 075

5

California

1850

 

3

155 973

6

Colorado

1876

 

8

103 730

7

Connecticut

1788

*

48

4 845

8

Delaware

1787

*

49

1 955

9

Florida

1845

 

22

53 997

10

Georgia

1788

*

24

57 919

11

Hawaii

1959

 

43

6 423

12

Idaho

1890

 

14

82 751

13

Illinois

1818

 

25

55 593

14

Indiana

1816

 

38

35 870

15

Iowa

1846

 

26

55 875

16

Kansas

1861

 

15

81 823

17

Kentucky

1792

 

37

39 732

18

Louisiana

1812

 

31

43 566

19

Maine

1820

 

39

30 865

20

Maryland

1788

*

42

9 775

21

Massachusetts

1788

*

44

7 838

22

Michigan

1837

 

11

56 809

23

Minnesota

1858

 

12

79 617

24

Mississippi

1817

 

32

46 914

25

Missouri

1821

 

21

68 898

26

Montana

1889

 

4

145 556

27

Nebraska

1867

 

16

76 878

28

Nevada

1864

 

7

109 80

29

New Hampshire

1788

*

46

8 968

30

New Jersey

1787

*

47

7 419

31

New Mexico

1912

 

5

121 365

32

New York

1788

*

27

47 224

33

North Carolina

1789

*

28

48 718

34

North Dakota

1889

 

19

68 994

35

Ohio

1803

 

34

40 953

36

Oklahoma

1907

 

20

68 679

37

Oregon

1859

 

9

96 003

38

Pennsylvania

1787

*

33

44 820

39

Rhode Island

1790

*

50

1 045

40

South Carolina

1788

*

40

30 111

41

South Dakota

1889

 

17

75 898

42

Tennessee

1796

 

36

41 220

43

Texas

1845

 

2

261 914

44

Utah

1896

 

13

82 168

45

Vermont

1791

 

45

9 249

46

Virginia

1788

*

35

39 598

47

Washington

1889

 

18

66 582

48

West Virginia

1863

 

41

24 087

49

Wisconsin

1848

 

23

54 314

50

Wyoming

1890

 

10

97 105

Source: Historical Statistics of the States of the United States. Comp. by D.B. Dodd. 1993
 
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