1890 census fire

I have found no 1890 census records for any family members. Almost all of the 1890 United States census records were damaged in a fire.

From census.gov:
Most of the census' population schedules were badly damaged by a fire in the Commerce Department Building in January 1921. 

For more information about the fire, the National Archives published an article, "First in the Path of the Firemen: The Fate of the 1890 Population Census," in its Spring 1996 Prologue found at
https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1996/spring/1890-census-1.html

The extant (remaining) schedules are numbered and noted following rolls 1-3 below. 

Roll 1
Perry County, Alabama (Perryville Beat No.11 and Severe Beat No. 8) [fragments 1-455]. 

Roll 2
District of Columbia. Q, 13th, 14th, R, Q, Corcoran, 15th, S, R, and Riggs Streets, Johnson Avenue, and S Street [fragments 456-781]. 

Roll 3
Muscogee County (Columbus), Georgia; McDonough County (Mound Twp.), Illinois; Wright County (Rockford), Minnesota; Hudson County (Jersey City), New Jersey; Westchester County, (Eastchester); and Suffolk County (Brookhaven Twp.), New York; Gaston County (South Point Twp. and River Bend Twp.) and Cleveland County (Twp. No. 2), North Carolina; Hamilton County (Cincinnati) and Clinton County (Wayne Twp.), Ohio; Union County (Jefferson Twp.), South Dakota; Ellis County (J.P. No. 6, Mountain Peak, and Ovilla Precinct), Hood County (Precinct No. 5), Rusk County (No. 6 and J.P. No. 7), Trinity County (Trinity Town and Precinct No. 2) and Kaufman County (Kaufman) [fragments 782-1,233], Texas.

From https://www.census.gov/history/www/genealogy/decennial_census_records/availability_of_1890_census.html

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