SFRA Chapter 6 (SOCIO-1)

Figure 6.17--Shares of areas in southern counties in 1992 in: (A) forest, (B) agriculture, and (C) urban [Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics land-cover maps (Vogelmann and others 1998)]

17a

Map of counties of the southern U.S. showing forest cover greater than sixty percent across broad areas of the southeastern and southern Piedmont and Southern Appalachians plus western Arkansas and Louisiana into eastern Texas and Oklahoma, with twenty percent or less in southern Florida, Mississippi Delta, southern Louisiana, and most of Texas and Oklahoma

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17b

Map of counties of the southern U.S. showing percent agricultural cover above sixty percent limited to areas along the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, with levels closer to thirty percent in central Florida and Tennessee, the Upper Coastal Plain and northern Piedmont, and eastern Texas and Oklahoma

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17c

Map of counties of the southern U.S. showing percent urban or built up cover greater than ten percent in parts of southern Florida and near most major cities, with intermediate levels in broader areas of the Piedmont, central Tennesse and Kentucky, southern Louisiana and southeastern Texas

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