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Figure 8.2--Land uses converted to 5.5 million total acres of developed land, southern region, 1992–97.

Note: The pie charts are proportional to the amount of land developed. The southern region pie chart is not proportional to the State pie charts. Data values of 1 percent or less are not shown. The developed land totals are as follows: cropland, 0.97 million acres; pastureland, 1.18 million acres; rangeland, 0.52 million acres; forest land, 2.63 million acres; and other, 0.19 million acres (U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service 1997).

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State	Forest	Range	Pasture	Cropland	Other	Developed Land Index
Alabama	63	0	19	16	2	0.75
Arkansas	48	0	30	19	3	0.65
Florida	41	16	25	14	4	1.45
Georgia	73	0	13	10	4	1.40
Kentucky	28	0	43	25	4	0.70
Louisiana	46	2	20	32	0	0.40
Mississippi	58	0	21	19	2	0.60
North Carolina	63	0	14	20	3	1.10
Oklahoma	20	32	36	9	3	0.70
South Carolina	69	0	10	19	3	0.80
Tennessee	46	0	31	21	5	0.85
Texas	13	36	26	22	3	1.50
Virginia	64	0	14	19	2	0.80
Developed Land	46	10	21	18	3	-

The Developed Land Index is visually estimated from the graph to indicate an approximate ordering of the amount of land developed in that state. All other values in the table are in percent.