If you don't see a town you expect to see in the list of towns below, check to see if the town was incorporated later than 1820 and was known then by another name; or if the town changed its name after incorporation; or if it's now located in another County.
Click here to to return to the main page for the 1820 Census in Maine, which has links to the 9 Maine Counties then in existence and, from there, to the individual Towns of the County chosen.
Click on the town name for more information, including links to the original documents and alphabetical lists of heads of households.
Note: some of the towns listed below are now in other Maine counties, as noted. The current counties of the Plantations and Township will require more research.
- Anson - Sheets 238-249
- Asia - West Side of Kennebec River, Range 1 - Sheets 324 and 325 - some online sources include Sheet 326 but that is for West Side of Kennebec River, second range - see listing farther below.
- Athens - Sheets 146-151 - some online resources attribute Sheet 146 all to Palmyra, but the bottom 5 names are for Athens (the enumerator neglected to write the town name in the margin)
- Avon - Sheets 283-287 - then in Somerset County, as of 1838 in Franklin County
- Bingham - Sheets 174-176
- Bloomfield - Sheets 120-126 - annexed to Skowhegan in 1861
- Canaan - Sheets 108-119
- Chandlers Ville - Sheets 184 and 185
- Cornville - Sheets 135 and 139
- Corinna - Sheets 140-143 - (then in Somerset County; as of 1833 in Penobscot County)
- East Pond Plantation, adjoining the towns of Fairfield and Norridgewock - Sheet 185
- Embden - Sheets 301-307
- Fairfield - Sheets 211-227 - the aggregate tallies appear on Sheet 227, otherwise attributed in some online resources to Starks
- Fairfield & Norridgewock - indexed online as such but actually is "East Pond Plantation"; see above.
- Freeman - Sheets 314-320 - then in Somerset County; as of 1838 in Franklin County; now Freeman Township
- Gilman Pond Plantation - Sheet 185
- Harmony, Sheets 151-56
- Hartland, Sheets 156-159
- Industry - Sheets 288-295 - then in Somerset County; as of 1838 in Franklin County
- Kingfield - Sheets 296-300
- Madison - Sheets 127-134
- Mercer - Sheets 250-258
- Million Acres North of Harmony - Sheet 186 - Wellington, Maine, as of 1838 in Piscataquis County
- Moscow - Sheets 176-178 (includes the entries mis-indexed online as "Mascow" and not including the names for Warsaw residents on Sheets 178-181 mis-attributed in some online sources to Moscow)
- Mount Abraham - see Plantation 4, Mount Abraham, below
- New Portland - Sheets 267-275
- New Vineyard - Sheets 308-314 - then in Somerset County; as of 1838 in Franklin County
- Norridgewock - Sheets 196-211
- North Hill - Sheets 160-164 - now Brighton Plantation
- Palmyra - Sheets 143-146 - some online sources may show all the names on Sheet 146 for Palmyra but the bottom five are for Athens
- Parkman - Sheets 182-184
- Phillips - Sheets 276-282 - then in Somerset County; as of 1838 in Franklin County
- Pittsfield - see Warsaw below
- Plantation 1, Third Range, Bingham Purchase - Sheet 185
- Plantation 2, Second Range, Bingham Purchase - Sheet 185
- Plantation 3 in 3rd Range; or Township 3 in 3rd Range
- Plantation 4, Mount Abraham, Bingham Purchase, adjoining town of Freeman - Sheet 320
- Plantation 7, 7th Range; or Township 7, 7th Range
- Plantation 9, 8th Range; or Township 9, 8th Range
- Ripley - Sheets 171-173
- Solon - Sheets 164-167
- St. Albans - Sheets 168-170
- Starks - Sheets 227-237
- Strong - Sheets 259-266 - then in Somerset County; as of 1838 in Franklin County
- Township 1
- Township North of No. 1 in Third Range - Sheet 185
- Township 3 in 3rd Range (or Plantation 3) - Sheet 188
- Township 7 in 7th Range - Sheet 181
- Township 9 in 8th Range
- Warsaw - Sheets 178-181 - as of 1824 Pittsfield (indexed incorrectly in some online sources as Moscow)
- West Side of Kennebec River, Range 1 - Asia - Sheets 324 and 325
- West Side of Kennebec River, 2nd Range, Bingham Purchase - Sheet 326
Somerset County in 1820 - the bluish green county in the central/western portion of the State
Somerset County in 2019
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