This dataset contains estimates of land in agricultural production by county.
The land in agriculture production estimates in this coverage are intend for use in estimating regional land in agricultural production, and in producing visual displays and mapping relative amounts of agricultural land use across broad regions of the United States.
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This coverage contains estimates of land in agricultural production in counties in the conterminous United States as reported in the 1987 Census of Agriculture (U.S. Department of Commerce, 1989a). Land in agriculture data are reported as either a number (for example, number of Farms), acres, or as a percentage of county area. Land in agriculture estimates were generated from surveys of all farms where $1,000 or more of agricultural products were sold, or normally would have been sold, during the census year.
Most of the attributes summarized represent 1987 data, but some information for the 1982 Census of Agriculture also was included.
This data is provided 'as is'. GeoPlan relied on the integrity of the original data layer's topology
This data is provided 'as is' by GeoPlan and is complete to our knowledge.
This data is provided 'as is' and its horizontal positional accuracy has not been verified by GeoPlan
This data is provided 'as is' and its vertical positional accuracy has not been verified by GeoPlan
Spatial and Attribute Information
FGDL Personnel joined Census of Agriculture attribute data to existing County Boundaries using the County Name as Key Item. - Dropped the following items: ST (state), PLYTYPE, WORKB. These items were for USGS internal use only. - Renamed CNTYNAME to CNTY_NAME - Renames AREA.ACRES to AREA_ACRES - Added items HECTARES and DESCRIPT
Corrected Sumter/Hernando border and Polk county boundary.
Internal feature number.
ESRI
Feature geometry.
ESRI
County Name
USGS WRD
Federal Information Processing Standard State and County Code
USGS WRD
Total County Land Area from USGS 1:2,000,000 County Data Layer
USGS WRD
Farms, 1987 (number)
USGS WRD
Land in farms, 1987 (acres)
USGS WRD
Percent of county as land in farms, 1987
USGS WRD
Land in farms, 1982 (acres)
USGS WRD
Percent of county as land in farms, 1982
USGS WRD
Average size of farm, 1987 (acres)
USGS WRD
Total cropland, 1987 (acres)
USGS WRD
Percent of county as total cropland, 1987
USGS WRD
Total cropland, 1982 (acres)
USGS WRD
Percent of county as total cropland, 1982
USGS WRD
Harvested cropland, 1987 (acres)
USGS WRD
Percent of county as harvested cropland, 1987
USGS WRD
Cropland used only for pasture or grazing, 1987 (acres)
USGS WRD
Cropland in cover crops, not harvested and not pastured in acres, 1987
USGS WRD
Cropland in cover crops, not harvested and not pastured in acres, 1982
USGS WRD
Total woodland, 1987 (acres)
USGS WRD
Percent of county as total woodland, 1987
USGS WRD
Woodland pastured, 1987 (acres)
USGS WRD
Woodland not pastured, 1987 (acres)
USGS WRD
Pastureland, all types, 1987 (acres)
USGS WRD
Percent of county as pastureland, all types, 1987
USGS WRD
Cropland placed under the conservation reserve program, 1987 (acres)
USGS WRD
Farms with irrigation, 1987 (number)
USGS WRD
Farms with irrigation, 1982 (number)
USGS WRD
Land in irrigated farms, 1987 (acres)
USGS WRD
Percent of county as land in irrigated farms, 1987
USGS WRD
Land in irrigated farms, 1982 (acres)
USGS WRD
Harvested cropland, irrigated, 1987 (acres)
USGS WRD
Harvested cropland, irrigated, 1982 (acres)
USGS WRD
Other cropland, excluding cropland pastured, irrigated, 1987 (acres)
USGS WRD
Other cropland, excluding cropland pastured, irrigated, 1982 (acres)
USGS WRD
Irrigated land, 1987 (acres)
USGS WRD
Percent of county as irrigated land, 1987
USGS WRD
Harvested cropland, irrigated, 1987 (acres)
USGS WRD
Pastureland and other land, irrigated, 1987 (acres)
USGS WRD
Land in orchards, total, 1987 (acres)
USGS WRD
Percent of county as land in orchards, total, 1987
USGS WRD
Polygon Area in Hectares Added by FGDL
ESRI
Derived from CA0400 (see above) Added by FGDL
GeoPlan
Length of perimeter in meters
ESRI
Area of Polygon in meters
ESRI
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