Title:  Improved farmland
Column Name:
 flimp
Span:  1850-1950
Units:  Acres
Format:  Integer


Improved farmland
- 1850
Improved land in farms includes cleared land used for grazing, grass, or tillage, or lying fallow, connected with or belonging to a farm.


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. Seventh Decennial Census of the United States, 1850. The Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. Washington D.C.: Robert Armstrong, Public Printer, 1853.


Improved farmland - 1860
Improved land in farms includes the acres of land under cultivation for the year ending June 1, 1860.



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. Eighth Decennial Census of the United States, 1860. Agriculture in the United States in 1860. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1864.


Improved farmland - 1870
Improved land in farms includes cleared land used for grazing, grass, or tillage, or lying fallow.

 

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.


Improved farmland - 1880, 1890
Improved land in farms includes land that is tilled, including fallow and grass in rotation (whether pasture or meadow), and permanent meadows, permanent pastures, orchards, and vineyards.


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. Tenth Decennial Census of the United States, 1880. Volume III, Report on the Productions of Agriculture in the United States as Returned at the Tenth Census. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1883.
-U.S. Census Office. Eleventh Decennial Census of the United States, 1890. Volume V, Report on the Statistics of Agriculture in the United States at the Eleventh Census. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1895.


Improved farmland - 1900
Improved land in farms includes land regularly tilled or mowed; land pastured and cropped in rotation; land lying fallow; and land in gardens, orchards, vineyards, and nurseries.


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. Twelfth Decennial Census of the United States, 1900. Volume V, Agriculture, Part 1. Washington D.C.: United States Census Office, 1902.


Improved farmland - 1910, 1920
Improved land in farms includes all land regularly tilled or mowed; land pastured and cropped in rotation; land lying fallow; land in gardens, orchards, vineyards, and nurseries; and land occupied by farm buildings.

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. Thirteenth Decennial Census of the United States, 1910. Volume VII, Agriculture: 1909 and 1910. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1913.
-U.S. Bureau of the Census. Fourteenth Decennial Census of the United States, 1920. Volume VI, Agriculture, Part I. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1922.


Improved farmland - 1950
Improved land in farms includes land from which crops were harvested; land from which hay (including wild hay) was cut; and land in small fruits, orchards, vineyards, nurseries, and greenhouses.


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. Seventeenth Decennial Census of the United States, 1950 Agriculture, Volume I, Part 33. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1952.