Title:  Unimproved farmland
Column Name:  funimp
Span:  1850-1890
Units:  Acres
Format:  Integer

Unimproved farmland - 1850
The acreage of unimproved farmland is the uncultivated land owned in connection with the farm, such as a wood lot whose timber or range is used for farm purposes.


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.


Unimproved farmland - 1860
Total unimproved farmland is the gross aggregate of uncultivated territory, fertile and waste 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.


Unimproved farmland - 1880
Total unimproved land in farms includes woodland, forests, old fields not growing wood, and other unimproved land.
 

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:
. 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.


Unimproved farmland - 1890
N/A



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. 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.