Title:  Value of forest products
Column Name:  forvp
Span:  1870-1940
Units:  Dollars
Format:  Integer

Forest products - 1870
No detailed definition is available for 1870. Please see the definitions for later years for a reasonable approximation. 



Source (where directly obtained):
Haines, Michael R., and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-2000, Database 2896. Hamilton, NY: Colgate University/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producers], 2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005.
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu

Original Source:
U.S. Census Office. Ninth Decennial Census of the United States, 1870. Volume III, The Statistics of the Wealth and Industry of the United States. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1872.


Forest products - 1930
Value of forest products includes those products cut on farms, for home use and for sale. The values were calculated by multiplying unit values, determined by the Census Bureau, by the number of units in each class of products.

Source (where directly obtained):
Haines, Michael R., and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-2000, Database 2896. Hamilton, NY: Colgate University/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producers], 2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005.
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu

Original Source:
U.S. Bureau of the Census. Fifteenth Decennial Census of the United States, 1930. Agriculture, Volume II, Part 3. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1932.


Forest products - 1940
The figures reported for the value of forest products include sales of firewood, fuel wood, standing timber, saw logs, veneer logs, pulpwood, mine props, bark, charcoal, fence posts, railroad ties, poles and pilings, turpentine, resin, maple syrup and sugar, etc. Values were enumerated, not calculated.

Source (where directly obtained):
Haines, Michael R., and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-2000, Database 2896. Hamilton, NY: Colgate University/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producers], 2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005.
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu

Original Source:
U.S. Bureau of the Census. United States Census of Agriculture, 1945. Volume I, Statistics for Counties. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1946-47.