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Dynamics of Land Use Change, 1960's  (Update 5/88, archive 9/97) Stock #88017
Economic Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture
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This disk contains 1960s data on land use change in fast population growth
counties in the United States.  Two Economic Research Service (ERS) reports
are based on the data:

        Zeimetz, Kathryn A., Elizabeth Dillon, Ernest E. Hardy, and Robert
C. Otte.  1976.  ?S?UDynamics of land use in fast growth areas??Q.  AER-235.
ERS, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.

        Zeimetz, Kathryn A., Elizabeth Dillon, Ernest E. Hardy, and Robert
C. Otte.  1976.  Using area point samples and airphotos to estimate land
use change.  ?S?UAgricultural Economics Research??Q 28(2): 65-74.

Similar data is available from ERS on land use change for the decade of
the 1970s.

Files include:

1.  README  -- This file.

2.  ZMATRIX -- A land use transition matrix for 53 fast-growth counties.

3.  Z53-MTX -- Land use transition matrices for each of 53 fast-growth
               counties.  Counties are identified by state and FIPS code.

4.  Z73-SOC -- Socioeconomic data for 53 fast-growth and 20 no-growth
               counties.  Includes rural, urban, and total population;
               income; employment; number of families; and housing units.
               Data is from U.S. Bureau of the Census.

5.  Z53-PRD -- Land use change data in tabular form for 53 fast-growth
               counties.

6.  Z20-PRD -- Land use change data in tabular form for 20 no-growth
               counties in the corn belt.

Land codes and use classes:

1 Cropland                 7  Urban idle
2 Pasture & range          8  Transportation
3 Open idle                9  Recreation
4 Farmstead               10  Commercial, Industrial, Institutional
5 Forest                  11  Water bodies > 40 acres
6 Residential             12  Miscellaneous

Matrices of land use show acres of late use in the last row.  Early use is
shown in the right column.  Numbers in each matrix show land use change
from early to late dates, except for the diagonal which shows use remaining
unchanged.  Dates for each county differ, depending on availability of
photography.


The following counties are included in this data set.

Fast-growth counties              Corn belt counties
FIPS   County         ST          FIPS   County         ST

01089  Madison        AL          17045  Edgar          IL
06085  Santa Clara    CA          17103  Lee            IL
06087  Santa Cruz     CA          17105  Livingston     IL
08001  Adams          CO          17121  Marion         IL
08005  Arapahoe       CO          17173  Shelby         IL
12071  Lee            FL          18017  Cass           IN
12101  Pasco          FL          18027  Daviess        IN
12115  Sarasota       FL          18153  Sullivan       IN
13067  Cobb           GA          19019  Buchanan       IA
13089  De Kalb        GA          19065  Fayette        IA
17043  Du Page        IL          19079  Hamilton       IA
17097  Lake           IL          19083  Hardin         IA
17197  Will           IL          19191  Winneshiek     IA
18105  Monroe         IN          19193  Woodbury       IA
18127  Porter         IN          20005  Atchison       KS
20091  Johnson        KS          20021  Cherokee       KS
21067  Fayette        KY          29159  Pettis         MO
24025  Harford        MD          39091  Logan          OH
24027  Howard         MD          39175  Wyandot        OH
24031  Montgomery     MD          46029  Codington      SD
24033  Prince Georges MD
25023  Plymouth       MA          Total                 20
26099  Macomb         MI
26161  Washentaw      MI
27003  Anoka          MN
27037  Dakota         MN
27163  Washington     MN
28059  Jackson        MS
29019  Boone          MO
29047  Clay           MO
29099  Jefferson      MO
29183  St. Charles    MO
29189  St. Louis      MO
31153  Sarpy          NE
34005  Burlington     NJ
34025  Monmouth       NJ
34027  Morris         NJ
34037  Sussex         NJ
37051  Cumberland     NC
37119  Mecklenburg    NC
37183  Wake           NC
39133  Portage        OH
40027  Cleveland      OK
42017  Bucks          PA
42029  Chester        PA
48085  Collin         TX
48113  Dallas         TX
48121  Denton         TX
48201  Harris         TX
48439  Tarrant        TX
48453  Travis         TX
51087  Henrico        VA
55133  Waukesha       WI

Total                 53




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