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Missouri and United States surface area by land cover/use

 

Land Cover/Use Category Missouri Acres Percent of Missouri Area United States Acres Percent of United States Area
Cultivated Cropland 10,235,400 23% 309,900,000 16%
Non-cultivated Cropland 3,442,500 6% 58,000,000 3%
Total Cropland 13,677,900 31% 367,900,000 19%
Conservation Reserve Program 1,460,900 3% 31,500,000 2%
Pastureland 10,673,600 24% 117,000,000 6%
Rangeland 87,500 1% 405,100,000 21%
Grazed Forest Land 3,225,800 7% 54,300,000 3%
Non-grazed Forest Land 9,324,100 21% 351,300,000 18%
Total Forest Land 12,549,900 28% 405,600,000 21%
Other Rural Land 688,300 1% 50,200,000 2%
Developed Land 2,710,500 6% 108,100,000 6%
Water 845,900 2% 50,400,000 2%
Federal Land 1,919,400 4% 401,900,000 21%
Total Surface Area 44,613,900 100% 1,937,700,000 100%

National estimates cover the contiguous 48 states.

Advisory:  All 2003 estimates only represent  2003 conditions and cannot be used to evaluate changes from previous inventory cycles.  A release of 2003 estimates with supplemental estimates that will compare net change and land cover/use dynamics with previous inventories is planned.

Definitions of NRI Land Cover/Use Categories:

Cropland - cultivated and non-cultivated land used for the production of adapted crops for harvest.

Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) - land under a CRP contract.  CRP is a federal program established under the Food Security Act of 1985 to assist private land owners in converting highly erodible cropland to vegetative cover for 10 years.

Pastureland - land used for the production of introduced forage plants for livestock grazing.

Rangeland - land on which the climax vegetation is composed of native grasses, grass-like plants, forbs or shrubs suitable for grazing or browsing and introduced forages species managed as rangeland.

Forest land - land that is at lease 10 percent stocked by single-stemmed woody species with an aerial canopy cover of 25 percent or greater.

Other Rural Land - land that includes farmsteads and other farm structures, field windbreaks, barren land and marshland.

Developed Land - a combination of land cover/use categories including small and large urban and built-up areas and rural transportation land (highways, roads, railroads and associated rights-of-ways outside urban and built-up areas).

Water - water bodies and streams that are permanent open water.

Federal Land - land owed by the federal government, excluding trust lands administered by federal agencies.


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