Piscataquis County, Maine

Founding: 1838
Parent counties: Penobscot and Somerset

Namesake: The Piscataquis River
Seat: Dover–Foxcroft (1838–)

Land area: 3,961 square miles

Population (2020): 16,800

Population (historic): 13,138 (1840); 15,032 (1860); 14,872 (1880); 16,949 (1900); 18,231 (1930)

Periods of population growth: pre-1840–1850; 1900s; 1970s

Subdivisions: 17 towns; two plantations; four CDPs; four territories

National Register listings: 60

Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 3,481 (22.6%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 70.7%
Pre-1860 housing survival rate (1940): 25%

Farm housing in disrepair (1950): 23.8%

Nonfarm housing in disrepair (1950): 10.9%

Average farmhouse value (1930): $1,177
Average outbuilding value (1930): $873
Average farmhouse size (1940): 6.8 rooms
Number of farms (1920): 1,424
Average farm size (1920): 47.7 acres
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Dover–Foxcroft

Namesake: Unclear—perhaps Dover, England, and Joseph E. Foxcroft

Founding: 1822 (incorporation, Dover); 1812 (incorporation, Foxcroft)

Population (2020): 4,422

Population (historic): 1,042 (1830); 1,927 (1850); 1,983 (1870); 1,889 (1900); 3,750 (1930)

Periods of population growth: pre-1830–1850; 1880s; 1900s; 1920s
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 860 (33.7%)
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