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National 1-kilometer rasters of selected Census of Agriculture statistics allocated to land use for the time period 1950 to 2012

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
1950
End Date
2012

Citation

Falcone, J.A., and LaMotte, A.E., 2016, National 1-kilometer rasters of selected Census of Agriculture statistics allocated to land use for the time period 1950 to 2012: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F70R9MHS.

Summary

This dataset consists of a series of rasters covering the conterminous United States. Each raster is a one kilometer (km) grid for 18 selected Census of Agriculture statistics mapped to land use pixels for the time period 1950 to 2012. A supplemental set of 9 statistics mapped at the entire county level are also provided as 1-km rasters. The rasters are posted as ArcGIS grids. The statistics represent values for crops, livestock, irrigation, fertilizer, and manure usage. Most statistics are mapped for all 14 Census of Agriculture reporting years in that time frame: 1950, 1954, 1959, 1964, 1969, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1987, 1992, 1997, 2002, 2007, and 2012.

Contacts

Point of Contact :
US Geological Survey, NAWQA
Originator :
James A. Falcone, Andrew E. LaMotte
Metadata Contact :
James Falcone
Distributor :
US Geological Survey - Science Base
USGS Mission Area :
Water Resources
SDC Data Owner :
Office of Planning and Programming

Attached Files

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alloc1950-2012-chickens-inventory.zip 45.4 MB application/zip
alloc1950-2012-chickens-inventoryandsold.zip 52.54 MB application/zip
alloc1950-2012-corn-grain-bushels.zip 66.07 MB application/zip
alloc1950-2012-corn-silage-gtons.zip 33.19 MB application/zip
alloc1950-2012-cotton-bales.zip 8.92 MB application/zip
alloc1950-2012-cows-inventory.zip 49.69 MB application/zip
alloc1950-2012-cows-inventoryandsold.zip 56.96 MB application/zip
alloc1950-2012-hayalf-drytons.zip 32.58 MB application/zip
alloc1950-2012-hogs-inventory.zip 26.14 MB application/zip
alloc1950-2012-hogs-inventoryandsold.zip 38.54 MB application/zip
alloc1950-2012-irrigation-sqkm.zip 159.58 MB application/zip
alloc1950-2012-orchards-sqkm.zip 115.72 MB application/zip
alloc1950-2012-rice-hundredweight.zip 4.77 MB application/zip
alloc1950-2012-sheep-inventory.zip 18.87 MB application/zip
alloc1950-2012-sheep-inventoryandsold.zip 24 MB application/zip
alloc1950-2012-soybeans-bushels.zip 41.13 MB application/zip
alloc1950-2012-wheat-bushels.zip 56.1 MB application/zip
alloc1954-2012-fertilizer-sqkm.zip 156.1 MB application/zip
census_of_ag_national_1km_grids_1950-2012-overview.xml
“Overview metadata”
Original FGDC Metadata

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14.57 KB application/fgdc+xml
pct1950-2012-corn.zip 922.62 KB application/zip
pct1950-2012-harvested-cropland.zip 952.55 KB application/zip
pct1950-2012-irrigation.zip 927.68 KB application/zip
pct1950-2012-orchards.zip 904.66 KB application/zip
pct1950-2012-rice.zip 626.75 KB application/zip
pct1950-2012-soybeans.zip 819.49 KB application/zip
pct1950-2012-wheat.zip 862.76 KB application/zip
pct1954-2012-fertilizer.zip 929.81 KB application/zip
pct2002-2012-manure.zip 698.92 KB application/zip
summary-coa-processed-to-grids-nov30-2016.xlsx
“Summary of allocation and grids”
12.67 KB application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet

Purpose

The purpose of this dataset is to provide GIS-ready national rasters of county-level agricultural statistics, and where possible to map those statistics to appropriate land use pixels. Mapping to land use pixels is a form of dasymetric mapping, which has the effect of masking out areas that are unlikely to have an agricultural component (for example, water or urban pixels). This improves the accuracy of zonal (for example, watershed)-based statistics calculated from the datasets. The 9 rasters not mapped to land use pixels are provided as a convenience.

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/F70R9MHS

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