IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/uerser/305573.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Major Uses of Land in the United States: 1978

Author

Listed:
  • Frey, H. Thomas

Abstract

Major primary uses of the U.S. land area of 2,264 million acres in 1978 were: cropland, 471 million acres; grassland pasture and range, 587 million acres; forest land, 703 million acres; transportation, recreation, and other special uses, 158 million acres; and miscellaneous land, 345 million acres. From 1974 to 1978, cropland area increased 1 percent and special uses increased 7 percent, while pasture-range and forest land each declined 2 percent.

Suggested Citation

  • Frey, H. Thomas, 1982. "Major Uses of Land in the United States: 1978," Agricultural Economic Reports 305573, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uerser:305573
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.305573
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/305573/files/aer487.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.305573?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Vesterby, Marlow & Heimlich, Ralph E. & Krupa, Kenneth S., 1994. "Urbanization of Rural Land in the United States," Agricultural Economic Reports 308271, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    2. Bigelow, Daniel & Borchers, Allison, 2017. "Major Uses of Land in the United States, 2012," Economic Information Bulletin 263079, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    3. Vesterby, Marlow & Krupa, Kenneth S., 2001. "Major Uses of Land in the United States, 1997," Statistical Bulletin 262284, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    4. Wunderlich, Gene, 0. "Landownership Policy," Increasing Understanding of Public Problems and Policies, Farm Foundation.
    5. Urban, Francis S. & Vollrath, Thomas L., 1984. "Patterns and Trends in World Agricultural Land Use," Foreign Agricultural Economic Report (FAER) 147517, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Land Economics/Use;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:uerser:305573. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/ersgvus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.