From 13 to 51 states

This is a list of U.S. states by date of statehood, that is, the date when each U.S. state joined the Union. Although the first 13 states can be considered to have been members of the United States from the date of theDeclaration of Independence – July 4, 1776 – or from the date on which they ratified the Articles of Confederation, they are presented here as being "admitted" on the date each ratified the present United States Constitution; most other such lists, including the 50 State Quarters program, do the same.

The admission dates for later states were set by either the act of admission or a later resolution issued under that act, except for Ohio, whose date of admission was determined by act of Congress in 1953 as March 1, 1803, when its legislature first met because of a clerical error of omission—the original act omitted setting a date that the act took effect.^{[note 1]}

This list does not account for the secession of 11 states during the American Civil War to form the Confederate States of America, the subsequent restoration of those states to representation in Congress (sometimes called "readmission") between 1866 and 1870, or the end of Reconstruction in those states. Since their secession was declared illegal by the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Texas v. White, they had never legally left the Union. The list also does not account for secessionist governments formed in two other states, as their Unionist governments generally remained in control.

Contents

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• 1 Map
• 2 Table
• 3 See also
• 4 References
• 5 Notes
• 6 External links

Map[edit]

The order in which the original 13 states ratified the constitution, then the order in which the others were admitted to the union

U.S. states by date of statehood

  1776-1790

  1791-1799

  1800-1819

  1820-1839

  1840-1859

  1860-1879

  1880-1899

  1900-1950

  1950-1959

Table[edit]

#	State		Admission	Preceding Entity
1		Delaware	December 7, 1787	Lower Counties on Delaware, i.e., the lower counties of Pennsylvania, then a sovereign State in Confederation[2]
2		Pennsylvania	December 12, 1787	Province of Pennsylvania, then sovereign state in Confederation.
3		New Jersey	December 18, 1787	Province of New Jersey, then sovereign state in Confederation
4		Georgia	January 2, 1788	Province of Georgia, then sovereign state in Confederation
5		Connecticut	January 9, 1788	Connecticut Colony, then sovereign state in Confederation[8]
6		Massachusetts	February 6, 1788	Province of Massachusetts Bay, then sovereign state in Confederation
7		Maryland	April 28, 1788	Province of Maryland, then sovereign state in Confederation
8		South Carolina	May 23, 1788	Province of South Carolina, then sovereign state in Confederation
9		New Hampshire	June 21, 1788	Province of New Hampshire, then sovereign state in Confederation
10		Virginia	June 25, 1788	Virginia Colony, then sovereign state in Confederation
11		New York	July 26, 1788	Province of New York, then sovereign state in Confederation
12		North Carolina	November 21, 1789	Province of North Carolina, then sovereign state in Confederation
13		Rhode Island	May 29, 1790	Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, then sovereign state in Confederation
14		Vermont	March 4, 1791	Province of New York and New Hampshire Grants(ownership disputed), the Republic of Vermont
15		Kentucky	June 1, 1792	Kentucky County, Virginia. Split off with consent of that state's legislature.
16		Tennessee	June 1, 1796	Formed from western land donated to the Federal government by North Carolina, and first state to originate from a territory
17		Ohio	March 1, 1803[note 1]	The Northwest Territory, land claims ceeded to the Federal government by the Eastern states such as Pennsylvania, Virginia, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York
18		Louisiana	April 30, 1812	Territory of Orleans
19		Indiana	December 11, 1816	Indiana Territory, formed from the Northwest Territory
20		Mississippi	December 10, 1817	Mississippi Territory, formed from land ceded to the Federal government by Georgia
21		Illinois	December 3, 1818	Illinois Territory, formed from the Northwest Territory
22		Alabama	December 14, 1819	Alabama Territory, formed from the Mississippi Territory, land ceded to the Federal government by the State of Georgia
23		Maine	March 15, 1820	Split off from Massachusetts with consent of the legislature that state (formerly called the District of Maine)
24		Missouri	August 10, 1821	Missouri Territory, from the Louisiana Purchase
25		Arkansas	June 15, 1836	Arkansas Territory from the Louisiana Purchase
26		Michigan	January 26, 1837	Michigan Territory, formed from the Northwest Territory
27		Florida	March 3, 1845	Florida Territory, purchased from the Spanish Empire
28		Texas	December 29, 1845	The Republic of Texas, which voluntarily merged into the United States
29		Iowa	December 28, 1846	Iowa Territory from the Louisiana Purchase
30		Wisconsin	May 29, 1848	Wisconsin Territory, formed from the Northwest Territory
31		California	September 9, 1850	Admitted directly from the Mexican Cession[note 2]
32		Minnesota	May 11, 1858	Minnesota Territory
33		Oregon	February 14, 1859	Oregon Territory
34		Kansas	January 29, 1861	Kansas Territory
35		West Virginia	June 20, 1863	Divided off from Virginia, with the "consent" of a pro-Union Virginia government in Wheeling unrecognized by that state's rebelling legislature in Richmond
36		Nevada	October 31, 1864	Nevada Territory, with some adjacent parts of theArizona Territory and the partially from the Deseret Territory added later on
37		Nebraska	March 1, 1867	Nebraska Territory
38		Colorado	August 1, 1876	Colorado Territory created from portions of the Kansas,Nebraska, New Mexico, and Utah territories.
39		North Dakota	November 2, 1889[note 3]	Dakota Territory
40		South Dakota	November 2, 1889[note 3]	Dakota Territory
41		Montana	November 8, 1889	Montana Territory, partially from the Deseret Territory
42		Washington	November 11, 1889	Washington Territory, formed from the Oregon Territory
43		Idaho	July 3, 1890	Idaho Territory (1863), formed from the Deseret Territory
44		Wyoming	July 10, 1890	Wyoming Territory, partially from the Deseret Territory
45		Utah	January 4, 1896	Utah Territory, from the Deseret Territory
46		Oklahoma	November 16, 1907	Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory
47		New Mexico	January 6, 1912	New Mexico Territory
48		Arizona	February 14, 1912	Arizona Territory
49		Alaska	January 3, 1959	Russian America, Department of Alaska, District of Alaska, and then the Territory of Alaska
50		Hawaii	August 21, 1959	The Kingdom of Hawaii, the Republic of Hawaii, and then the Territory of Hawaii