Home / 1959 / Farms and Land in Farms

Farms and Land in Farms

Census Year: 1959

Within: Volume 2: Statistics By Subjects

Introduction

1. Full PDF

2. Introduction

Tables

1. Items needed to obtain comparability of data for earlier census years with those for 1959, for total cropland, cropland pastured, and other pasture ( not cropland and not woodland)

2. Total, rural, and farm population, for the United States: 1850 to 1959

3. Average number of persons per farm, with per capita data for land in farms, cropland harvested, and value of farm products sold, for the United States: Censuses of 1850 to 1959

4. Number of farms, all land in farms, and value of farms, for the United States: 1850 to 1959

5. Major uses of land in the United States: 1890 to 1959

6. All land in farms and specified uses of land, for the United States: Censuses of 1850 to 1959

7. Farms by number of acres of cropland harvested for the United States: 1949 to 1959

8. Average acreage per farm reporting, of the several classes of land according to use, by regions: 1959 and 1950

9. Number of farms, all land in farms, and value of farms, by divisions and States: 1959, 1954, and 1950

10. Land in farms classified according to use, by divisions and States: 1959, 1954, and 1949

11. Number of farms reporting the several classes of land according to use, by divisions and States: 1959, 1954, and 1949

12. Total cropland, total pasture, and total woodland in farms, by divisions and States: 1959, 1954, and 1949

13. Major uses of land, by divisions and States: 1959, 1954, and 1949

14. Farms by acres of cropland harvested, by divisions and States: 1959, 1954, and 1949

15. Percent of all land in farms represented by the several classes of land according to use, by divisions and States: 1959 and 1954

16. Percent of farms reporting the several classes of land according to use, by divisions and States: 1959 and 1954

17. Average acreage per farm reporting, of the several classes of land according to use, by divisions and States: 1959 and 1954

18. Cultivated summer fallow, 1959 and 1954; and cropland used only for soil-improvement cropas and other cropland not harvested and not pastured, 1959: for specified States

19. Irrigated farms - number and acreage irrigatede by divisions and States: Censuses of 1959, 1954, and 1950

20. Specified land - use and conservation practices, by divisions and States: 1959

21. Number of farms, all land in farms, cropland harvested, and value of farms, by regions and States: Censuses of 1850 to 1959

Charts and Maps

1. Acreage of land in farms and not in farms, for the United States: 1850 to 1960

2. Land utilization as a percent of total land area

3. Land in farms according to use: 1959 and 1954

4. Number of farms in the United States: 1850 to 1959

5. All land in farms in the United States: 1850 to 1959

6. Cropland harvested for the United States: 1879 to 1959

7. Pasture and grazing land for the United States: 1930 to 1959

8. Average value of land per farm: 1850 to 1959

9. All land in farms

10. Total cropland

11. Total land pastured

12. Land in soil-improvement crops, not harvested and not pastured

13. Land in cover crops

14. Cropland used for grain or row crops farmed on the contour

15. Land in strip crops for soil erosion control

16. Crop and pasture land with terraces

17. Total cropland as a percent of all land in farms, 1959

18. Cropland harvested as a percent of the total land area, 1959

19. Cropland harvested

20. Cropland used only for pasture

21. Cropland not harvested and not pastured

22. Cultivated Summer fallow

23. Total pasture as a percent of all land in farms, 1959

24. Pasture other than cropland and woodland

25. Woodland pastured

26. Woodland in farms

27. Number of farms, 1959

28. Average size of farms, 1959

29. Number of farms - increase and decrease

30. Number of farms - decrease due to change in definition

31. Total cropland - increase and decrease

32. Cropland harvested - increase and decrease

33. Improved pasture, other than cropland and woodland

34. Average value of land and buildings per farm, 1959

35. Average value of land and buildings per acre, 1959

Other Years