Urban and Built-up Land Use by State and Other Area: 1997 statistics

{Excludes Alaska and District of Columbia. Urban and built-up areas consist of residential, industrial, commercial, and institutional land; construction sites; public administrative sites; railroad yards; cemeteries; airports; golf courses; sanitary landfills; sewage treatment plants; water control structures and spillways; other land used for such purposes; small parks (less than 10 acres) within urban and built-up areas; and highways, railroads, and other transportation facilities if they are surrounded by urban areas. Also included are tracts of less than 10 acres that do not meet the above definition but are completely surrounded by Urban and bult-up land]


		POST			Urban land
State	FIPS	OFFICE
and	Code	ABBREV-	Total	Total	Percent	Change,
other area		IATION	land		of total	1992-97

Total	(X)	(X)	1,944,135	80,781	4.2	15,428

United States	00000	US	1,941,827	80,276	4.1	15,286

Alabama	01000	AL	33,424	1,823	5.5	424
Alaska	02000	AK	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)
Arizona	04000	AZ	72,964	1,246	1.7	181
Arkansas	05000	AR	34,037	996	2.9	226
California	06000	CA	101,510	4,952	4.9	685
Colorado	08000	CO	66,625	1,182	1.8	115
Connecticut	09000	CT	3,195	823	25.8	61
Delaware	10000	DE	1,534	213	13.9	34
District of Columbia	11000	DC	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)	(NA)
Florida	12000	FL	37,534	4,867	13.0	925
Georgia	13000	GA	37,741	3,534	9.4	1,051
Hawaii	15000	HI	4,163	159	3.8	9
Idaho	16000	ID	53,488	445	0.8	109
Illinois	17000	IL	36,059	2,544	7.1	288
Indiana	18000	IN	23,158	1,846	8.0	269
Iowa	19000	IA	36,017	839	2.3	91
Kansas	20000	KS	52,661	1,070	2.0	167
Kentucky	21000	KY	25,863	1,418	5.5	341
Louisiana	22000	LA	31,377	1,339	4.3	155
Maine	23000	ME	20,966	582	2.8	164
Maryland	24000	MD	7,870	1,189	15.1	219
Massachusetts	25000	MA	5,339	1,463	27.4	281
Michigan	26000	MI	37,349	3,360	9.0	549
Minnesota	27000	MN	54,010	1,535	2.8	300
Mississippi	28000	MS	30,527	1,094	3.6	298
Missouri	29000	MO	44,614	1,743	3.9	297
Montana	30000	MT	94,110	409	0.4	116
Nebraska	31000	NE	49,510	557	1.1	67
Nevada	32000	NV	70,763	325	0.5	37
New Hampshire	33000	NH	5,941	549	9.2	104
New Jersey	34000	NJ	5,216	1,803	34.6	282
New Mexico	35000	NM	77,823	793	1.0	337
New York	36000	NY	31,361	2,919	9.3	485
North Carolina	37000	NC	33,709	3,556	10.5	755
North Dakota	38000	ND	45,251	271	0.6	37
Ohio	39000	OH	26,445	3,431	13.0	519
Oklahoma	40000	OK	44,738	1,290	2.9	214
Oregon	41000	OR	62,161	886	1.4	142
Pennsylvania	42000	PA	28,995	3,901	13.5	1,103
Rhode Island	44000	RI	813	187	22.9	10
South Carolina	45000	SC	19,939	1,880	9.4	533
South Dakota	46000	SD	49,358	366	0.7	71
Tennessee	47000	TN	26,974	2,182	8.1	597
Texas	48000	TX	171,052	7,126	4.2	1,146
Utah	49000	UT	54,339	505	0.9	99
Vermont	50000	VT	6,154	241	3.9	25
Virginia	51000	VA	27,087	2,302	8.5	464
Washington	53000	WA	44,035	1,686	3.8	328
West Virginia	54000	WV	15,508	745	4.8	266
Wisconsin	55000	WI	35,920	1,844	5.1	271
Wyoming	56000	WY	62,603	261	0.4	42

Caribbean			2,307	505	21.9	142

Source: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, National Resource and Conservation Service, and Iowa State University, Statistical Laboratory, 1997 National Resources Inventory.

http://www.nhq.nrcs.usda.gov/NRI/1997/

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Urban and built-up areas -- A Land Cover/Use category consisting of residential, industrial, commercial, and institutional land; construction sites; public administrative sites; railroad yards; cemeteries; airports; golf courses; sanitary landfills; sewage treatment plants; water control structures and spillways; other land used for such purposes; small parks (less than 10 acres) within urban and built-up areas; and highways, railroads, and other transportation facilities if they are surrounded by urban areas. Also included are tracts of less than 10 acres that do not meet the above definition but are completely surrounded by Urban and Built-up land. Two size categories are recognized in the NRI: (i) areas 0.25 to 10 acres, and (ii) areas greater than 10 acres.

Rural transportation land -- A Land Cover/Use category which consists of all highways, roads, railroads and associated rights-of-way outside urban and built-up areas; including private roads to farms, logging roads, and other private roads, except field lanes.

Small built-up areas -- A land cover/use category consisting of developed land units of 0.25 to 10 acres, meeting the definition of "Urban and Built-up Areas" (see definition). [NRI-92]

Cropland. A Land cover/use category that includes areas used for the production of adapted crops for harvest. Two subcategories of cropland are recognized: cultivated and noncultivated. Cultivated cropland comprises land in row crops or close-grown crops and also other cultivated cropland, for example, hayland or pastureland that is in a rotation with row or close-grown crops. Noncultivated cropland includes permanent hayland and horticultural cropland.

Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). A federal program established under the Food Security Act of 1985 to assist private landowners to convert highly erodible cropland to vegetative cover for 10 years. [NMCSP]

Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) land. A Land cover/use category that includes land under a CRP contract.

Federal land. A land ownership category designating land that is owned by the federal government. It does not include, for example, trust lands administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs or Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) land. No data are collected for any year that land is in this ownership. Federal land :

Forest land. A Land cover/use category that is at least 10 percent stocked by single-stemmed woody species of any size that will be at least 4 meters (13 feet) tall at maturity. Also included is land bearing evidence of natural regeneration of tree cover (cut over forest or abandoned farmland) and not currently developed for nonforest use. Ten percent stocked, when viewed from a vertical direction, equates to an areal canopy cover of leaves and branches of 25 percent or greater. The minimum area for classification as forestland is 1 acre, and the area must be at least 100 feet wide. Land cover/use. A term that includes categories of land cover and categories of land use. Land cover is the vegetation or other kind of material that covers the land surface. Land use is the purpose of human activity on the land; it is usually, but not always, related to land cover. The NRI uses the term land cover/use to identify categories that account for all the surface area of the United States.

Pastureland. A Land cover/use category of land managed primarily for the production of introduced forage plants for livestock grazing. Pastureland cover may consist of a single species in a pure stand, a grass mixture, or a grass-legume mixture. Management usually consists of cultural treatments: fertilization, weed control, reseeding or renovation, and control of grazing. For the NRI, includes land that has a vegetative cover of grasses, legumes, and/or forbs, regardless of whether or not it is being grazed by livestock.

Rangeland. A Land cover/use category on which the climax or potential plant cover is composed principally of native grasses, grasslike plants, forbs or shrubs suitable for grazing and browsing, and introduced forage species that are managed like rangeland. This would include areas where introduced hardy and persistent grasses, such as crested wheatgrass, are planted and such practices as deferred grazing, burning, chaining, and rotational grazing are used, with little or no chemicals or fertilizer being applied. Grasslands, savannas, many wetlands, some deserts, and tundra are considered to be rangeland. Certain communities of low forbs and shrubs, such as mesquite, chaparral, mountain shrub, and pinyon-juniper, are also included as rangeland.

Water. A General cover category consisting of permanent water, such as a perennial stream, lake, or pond with at least 25 percent open water. If the vegetative canopy obscures more than 75 percent of the water surface from view, the area is recorded under the category appropriate for the canopy vegetation. Four types of water areas are large streams, large water bodies, small streams, and small water bodies.

Water areas. A Land cover/use category comprising water bodies and streams that are permanent open water.

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