Major Uses of Land in the United States, 2002
by Ruben N. Lubowski, Marlow Vesterby, Shawn Bucholtz , Alba Baez, and Michael Roberts
Economic Information Bulletin No. (EIB-14) 54 pp, May 2006
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This publication presents the results of the latest (2002) inventory of U.S. major land uses, drawing on data from the Census, public land management and conservation agencies, and other sources. The data are synthesized by State to calculate the use of several broad classes and subclasses of agricultural and nonagricultural land over time. The United States has a total land area of nearly 2.3 billion acres. Major uses in 2002 were forest-use land, 651 million acres (28.8 percent); grassland pasture and range land, 587 million acres (25.9 percent); cropland, 442 million acres (19.5 percent); special uses (primarily parks and wildlife areas), 297 million acres (13.1 percent); miscellaneous other uses, 228 million acres (10.1 percent); and urban land, 60 million acres (2.6 percent). National and regional trends in land use are discussed in comparison with earlier major land-use estimates.
Keywords: Land use, land-use change, agricultural land, nonagricultural land, cropland, forest-use land, forestland, pasture, rangeland, rural residential land, urban land
In this publication...
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Report summary, Pdf file 100 kb
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Abstract, Acknowledgments, Contents, Preface, and Summary, Pdf file 102 kb
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How the Land Is Used, Pdf file 102 kb
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Trends in Major Uses of Land, Pdf file 71 kb
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Basic Regional Land-Use Patterns, Pdf file 831 kb
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Cropland, Pdf file 144 kb
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Grazing Land, Pdf file 69 kb
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Forest-Use Land, Pdf file 60 kb
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Urban and Rural Residential Uses, Pdf file 73 kb
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Special Uses, Pdf file 63 kb
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Miscellaneous Other Land Uses,, Pdf file 44 kb
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Major Uses of Land, by Class of Ownership, Pdf file 58 kb
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References, Pdf file 53 kb
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Appendix: Definitions and Explanation of the Data, Pdf file 53 kb
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Entire Document, Pdf file 1,214 kb
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