OLIN HA 201 1880 .B13 1881a =<1 Cornell University Library The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924097555803 /K ^^> In compliance with current copyright law, Cornell University Library produced this replacement volume on paper that meets the ANSI Standard Z39.48-1992 to replace the irreparably deteriorated original. 2003 €mm\l mmrmitg Jitetg THE GIFT OF .^. 1d/At..i.^.. .^...Aa.«^Q...I.\ JL^J.u.Ui". DEPAETMEITT OF THE INTERIOR, CE^srstrs ofb'ice. Washington, B. C, September 30, 1881. Hon. Fbanois a. Walkeb, Superintendent of Census : Sir : I have the honor to transmit to you herewith, for publication as an Extra Census Bulletin, tables showinfj the approximate areas of the United States, the several states, and their counties. The necessity for revising the figures which have popularly passed as the areas of the states presented itself early in the progress of my geographical work in connection with the Census. Of several states a number of estimates of area have been iu use, differiag from one another by thousands of square miles, and none of them, perhaps, traceable to any authentic source. Many of the results were palpably wrong, being so far from the truth that it is a source of surprise that they were not corrected before. The methods by which I have obtained the areas are fully set forth in the body of the bulletin. I may say, however, that, while most of the areas can be considered as only approximations, yet they are as close approximations as the maps and the determinations of geographical positions, of boundary lines, etc., will permit. The details of this work were carried out by Mr. F. DeT. Carpenter, to whom I am also indebted for the formula for the area of a "square degree", the unit of computation. Very respectfully yours, HENEY GA20:ETT, E. M., Geographer Tenth Census. APPEOXIMATE AEEAS OF THE UNITED STATES, THE SEYEML STATES, AND THE TERRITOEIES. The question, What constitutes the area of the United States? is by no means a simple one. Our jurisdiction extends to a line three nautical miles from the shore, but this strip of sea cannot properly be regarded as a portion of the country. Supposing our boundary to be restricted to the sea-coast, there remains a question regarding the bays and estuaries of the sea. To what extent should the coast line be followed strictly, and where should we begin to jump across the indentations made by the sea? In this matter one can only follow his own judgment, making in each case as natural a decision as possible, as no criterion whatever can be established. In this way I have defined the coast limits, showing by the red line on the accompan3dng map what I have taken as the gross area of the country and of the states, severally. Method of measurement. Taking first the United States (with the exception of Alaska) as a whole, its area was determined by summing up the square degrees, i. e., the regions comprised between consecutive parallels and meridians. Along the coast and the boundary lines of the country the areas of the fractional square degrees were obtained by direct measurement by means of scaJes, in every case measuring the smaller portion, whether land or water, to avoid, as far as possible, the errors incident to the projections and scales of the maps. The Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts were measured on charts of the Coast Survey ; the shore lines of the great lakes on those of the United States Lake Survey ; and the boundary with Mexico on the maps of the Mexican Boundary Commission. The northern boundary follows the parallel of 49° to the Lake of the Woods. Thence to lake Superior is a weak place where we are dependent upon the map of Hind's exploration. The northern boundary, east of the portion covered by the charts of the Lake Survey, was measured on the maps of the several international boundary commissions. A second weak spot exists on the eastern boundary of Maine, from Schoodic lake to the Atlantic coast. This is covered by no authentic map, but measurements made on several different maps agree very closely. We find, then, that the whole contour of the country is given by surveys whose accuracy is unquestioned, excepting in the two spots above mentioned, i. e., from Lake of the Woods to lake Superior, and from Schoodic lake to the Atlantic. The measurements, made with the utmost care and several times repeated, can embody but very slight errors, and it is not probable that the two weak places in the boundary allow any considerable error. The areas of the square degrees were computed by the following formula, derived by Mr. F. DeY. Carpenter: Area = ^ (M'-M) NEm sin g (L'-L) cos | (L'+L), in which M' and M are the longitudes of the limited meridians, M' — M being in degrees or fractions of a degree ; iT is the normal to the middle latitude, in miles ; R the radius of curvature of the meridian at the middle latitude, in miles ; L' and L the limiting latitudes ; and «i^ 1.004285. The resulting area is in square mUes.* The areas of the square degrees entirely comprised within the limits of the country, and of those whose areas are more than one-half within, were computed by the above formula. Prom the latter were subtracted the portions lying without our limits, as determined by direct measurement, and to the whole were added the results of measurements of the remaining portions, i. e., those not included in the computed square degr^s. The areas of the several states and ^territories were determined in a similar manner. In^cases, sw^-as-fchestv of Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah, whereV state or territory is limited on all sides by parallels and meridians, the exact determination of its area is an easy matter. In cases where the square degree is divided by the boundary line into two or more parts, these parts were distributed between or among the states by direct measurement from *For a full discussion of this formula, see article by Mr. Carpenter, in Van JSTostrand's Engineering Magazine, for December, 1680, y. 157. 3 '4 AREAS OF THE STATES AND TERRITORIES. tlie best available maps, the sum of the parts being made to equal the whole, as determined by computation. The great source of error in the areas of the states is due, not to errors of measurement, which may be regarded as trifling, but to uncertainty in the location of the boundary lines between them. Until these shall have been accurately established, all measurements of certain states can be regarded as only approximations. Thus the position of the boundary between Virginia and West Virginia is not known within several ndles, leaving sufdcient latitude for an error of several hundred square miles in each state. Whatever may ultimately be taken from the area bf one, by a correct location of this boundary, wiU be added to the other. Another point to be considered is that of errors in surveying and marking those boundaries which, by law, have been established on certaia lines, such as paraUels or meridians. It is well known that many state and territorial boundaries have been very badly surveyed, in some cases the errors amounting to miles. In such cases I have accepted as the boundary that established by law, as it is, of course, impossible to define the locations of the boundary stakes. The following table gives the total areas of the states and territories, as defined on the map and in the notes following the table, the area of coast waters, of rivers, etc., of lakes and ponds, of total water area, and the net land surface of the states and territories : SUMMAEY OP AEBAS OF STATES, TEEEITOEIES, ETC., IN SQXJAEE MILES. Total. Alabama . . Arizona ... Arkansas . . Cnlifomia . Colorado.-. Connecticut Dakota Delaware District of Colmnbia. Florida Georgia Idaho niinois Indiana...... Indian territory . Iowa Kansas Kentncty . Xonisiana. . Haine Maryland Massachnsetts . Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missonri.-. Montana-.. Nebraska Nevada '.... New Hampshire.. New Jersey .... New Mexico-... New York North Carolina - Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania . - . Bhode Island... South Carolina . Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington . West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming ... Unorganized territory , Delaware hay 3, 025, 600 Karitan hay and lower New York hay . .52, 250 113, 020 53, 850 158, 380 103, 025 4,990 149, 100 2,050 70 58, 680 59, 475 84,800 56, 650 36, 350 64,690 66, 025 82, 080 40, 400 48, 720 33, 040 12,210 8,315 58, 915 83, 365 46, 810 69, 415 146, 080 76, 855 110, 700 9,305 7,815 122, 580 49, 170 52, 250 41, 060 96, 030 45, 215 1,260 30, 570 42, 050 265, 780 84,970 9,565 42, 460 69,180 24,780 56, 040 97,890 5,740 620 100 M il o 17, 200 640 30 'i,'86o' 1,060 645 1,850 125 30 205 350 3,260 60 136 215 2,510 1,780 1,380 620 100 =3 i. m "I DO 00 14, 500 540 240 270 80 610 60 10 390 300 200 515 330 600 450 380 376 540 300 500 60 340 410 630 35 80 120 115 300 250 140 600 200 10 ■ 180 200 800 80 50 520 560 135 420 85 23, 900 10 20 265 ,600 10 40 790 2,260 45 310 135 110 100 26 1,700 2,300 90 1,225 3,800 100 50 360 40 925 220 36 5 900 160 160 920 30 20 5 100 180 2,700 380 25 360 1,170 230 ■a ■a 55, 600 710 100 805 3,380 280 145 1,400 90 10 4,440 496 510 650 440 600 650 380 400 3,300 3,145 2,350 276 1,485 4,160 470 770 670 300 120 1,660 3,670 300 1,470 230 166 400 300 3,490 2,780 430 2,326 2,300 135 1,690 315 620 100 I 2, 970, 000 51,540 112, 920 53, 045 166, 980 103, 645 4,845 147, 700 1,960 60 54,240 58, 980 84, 290 56, 000 35, 910 64,090 55, 475 81, 700 40, 000 45, 420 29,896 9,860 8,040 57, 430 79, 205 46, 340 68,735 146, 310 76, 185 109, 740 9,005 7,455 122, 460 47, 620 48, 580 40, 760 94, 560 44, 985 1,085 30, 170 41, 760 262, 290 82, 190 9,136 40, 125 66, 880 24,645 54,450 97, 576 5,740 AREAS OF THE STATES AND TERRITORIES. 5 ALABAMA. Includes Mobile bay, talf of Perdido bay, and half of the boundary portions of the Perdido and Chattahoochee rivers. Authorities. — For Gulf coast, Coast Survey maps; for east and -west boundaries, Land Office maps. Coast Survey " sketches", and Engineer Office maps. The north boundary is taken at latitude 35°. The south boundary, from Perdido river to Chattahoochee river, follows the parallel of 31°. AEIZOKA. Includes half of boundary portion of Colorado river. Authorities. — For the Colorado river, Wheeler's maps; for the Mexican boundary, maps of the Mexican Boundary Survey. AEEANSAS. Includes half of boundary portion of Red river, Mississippi river, and St. Francis river. Authorities. — South boundary taken at 33° 00' ; north boundary taken at 36° 30'. For the east boundary. Land Office maps and Coast Survey "sketches", after comparison with Engineer Office maps; for Red river, Texas land office maps; for boundary with Indian territory, Rufflner's map of Indian territory. CALIFOEEIA. Includes bays of San Francisco, False, and San Diego. Includes half of boundary portion of Colorado river. Includes the portion of lake Tahoe within state line. Authorities. — ^For the Pacific coast. Coast Survey maps ; for the Nevada boundary south of latitude 39°, Wheeler's maps ; for the Colorado river, Wheeler's maps ; for the boundary with lower California, Mexican Boundary Survey. COLORADO. Is limited on all sides by parallels of latitude and meridians of longitude, audits area is simply a matter of computation. OOimECTICUT. Includes the various inlets and river-mouths along the shores of Long Island sound. Authorities. — ^For Long Island sound, the Coast Survey maps; for the west boundary, French's map of New Tork and Colton's map of Connecticut; for the north boundary, Walling and Gray's atlas of Massachusetts; for the east boundary, Colton's map of Connecticut and Thompson's map of Rhode Island. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Includes boundary portion of the Potomac river. Authority. — McCleUand's map of the District of Columbia. DAKOTA. Includes half of boundary rivers and lakes. Authority. — For boundary rivers and lakes. Land Office map of Dakota, after comparison with Engineer Office map. DELAWARE. Includes half of the boundary portion of the Delaware river as far south as Cohansey creek ; also Rehoboth bay and Indian riven Authorities.— For the Atlantic coast, Delaware bay, and the Delaware river south of latitude 39° 30', the Coast Survey maps ; f.v>..., .^..u >»- 12 AREAS OF THE STATES AND TERRITOEIES. COLOEADO. Connties. Area in square miles. Connties. Area in square miles. Connties. Area in square miles. Connties. Area in square miles. The State Arapalioe 103,645 5,000 Costilla Custer Douglas Elbert 1,800' 860 840 6,200 2,700 1,600 ISO 4,000 9,000 Hinsdale Huerfano Jefferson Lake 1,440 1,600 860 450 4,500 2,600 7,000 2,500 Park ■ Pneblo Eio Grande Eoutt 2,300 2,600 1,500 6,000 4,500 Bent Boulder -'Chaffee..... Clear Creek 9,S40 860 1,235 460 2,300 El Paso Fremont Gilpin Grand La Plata Larimer Las Animas - Ouray San Juan Summit...... .- Weld 560 9,000 10, 000 The State., Fairfield , 4,845 560 CONIJTECTIOUT. Hartford.. Litchfield . Middlesex 650 760 440 Uew Haven... New London.. 650 780 ■Holland.... Windham., 375 630 DAKOTA.' The Territory Aurora Barnes Beadle Billings Bonhotnme Boreui an Bottineau Brookings Browu Brul6 Buffalo Burleigli Campbell Cass Cavileer Charles Mix Cheyenne Clark Cla;^ Codington Custer - Davison 147,700 1,160 1,500 1,270 3,490 550 2,460 1,770 810 1,730 680 760 2,980 870 1,760 1,770 1,160 2,960 1,290 400 680 1,990 430 Day Delano Deuel DeSmet Douglas Edmunds 'JEmmons Faulk Forsyth -Foster Gingras -Grand Forks Grant Gregory Hamlin Hand Hanson Howard Hughes Hutchinson . , Hyde Kidder Kingsbury... Lake 1,440 2,160 630 1,220 360 1,250 1,550 1,150 1,360 1,520 1,520 2,700 950 930 720 1,440 430 4,500 1,000 760 410 1,440 SCO 570 'Tripp -Turner .■^nion Wallette -Walworth ... White Biver. I^^Williams -Yankton L-Ziebach 1,760 1,390 1,760 1,870 2,500 1,510 1,580 640 2,730 3,090 2,010 1,690 860 1,940 2,150 570 460 3,590 970 1,080 2,190 600 930 * Part of the area is embraced in Indian reservations. DELAWARE. The state.. 1, 960 Kent 630 l^Tew Castle . 430 Sussex. 900 FLOEmA. The State, Alachua Baker Bradford Brevard Calhoun Clay Columbia Dade 54, 240 1,260 600 550 4,390 1,160 640 860 7,200 Duval Escambia Franklin Gadsden Hamilton Hernando Hillsborough Holmes Jackson Jefferson Lafayette 900 720 690 540 540 1,700 1,300 540 1,000 560 940 Leon Levy ... Liberty. Madison Manatee Marion . Monroe . Ifassau . Orange . Polk.... 900 940 800 850 4,680 1,680 2,600 640 2,250 2,060 Putnam..... Saint John's Santa Bosa . Sumter Suwannee .. Taylor Volusia Wakulla.... Walton Washington 1,000 1,260 1,380 660 1,080 1,340 580 1,360 1,330 GBOEGIA. The State, BalEer Baldwin . Banks ... Bartow .. Berrien .. Bibb Brooks... Bryan ... Bulloch.. Burke ... Butts.... Calbonn . Camden.. Campbell Carroll... atoosa... 58,980 1,080 340 240 320 500 700 240 530 400 90O 1,"030 ISO 280 620 240 540 160 Charlton Chatham Chattahoochee Chattooga Cherokee Clarke Clay Clayton Clinch Cobb Coffee Colquitt Columbia Coweta Crawford Bade Dawson Decatur DeKalb Podge 1,060 400 220 400 470 180 200 140 900 400 980 550 290 440 340 180 180 1, 160 280 580 Dooly Dougherty Douglas .. Early Echols EfBngham Elbert Emanuel.. Fannin .... Payette... Floyd Forsyth... Franklin.. Fulton Gilmer Glascock . . Glynn Gordon ... Greene ... Gwjanett . 780 340 190 510 400 420 440 1,040 390 220 540 260 330 200 480 100 430 360 340 470 Habersham Hall Hancock... Haralson .. Harris Hart Heard Henry Houston ... Irwin Jackson ... Jasper Jefferson . . Johnson ... Jones Laurens ... Lee Liberty Lincoln.... LQwn4e8... 400 540 520 330 470 330 290 400 860 680 360 380 620 260 470 740 300 7a0 ...... 470 AREAS OF THE STATES AND TERRITORIES. 13 GEOEGIA— Continued. Comities. LumpMn — MoDuffie Mcintosh — Haoon Madison Marion .. Meriwether . Miller Milton MitoheU Monroe Montgomery Morgan Murray Mnscogee... Area in square miles. 290 330 630 490 240 110 500 470 720 400 420 210 Counties. K"eTrton Ooonee ... Oglethorpe Paulding . Pickens Pierce Pike Polk Pulaski . - . Putnam... Quitman . _ Kahun Handolph . Kichmond Bockdale . Area in square miles. 260 160 510 340 230 540 290 330 470 360 160 400 400 320 120 Counties. Schley ScreTen... Spalding.. Stewart... Sumter ... Talhot.... Taliaferro Tattnall .. Taylor.... Telfair.... Terrell... Thomas... Towns Troup Twiggs... Area in square miles. 180 720 220 440 520 360 180 1,100 400 420 320 780 180 430 330 Counties. TTnion Upaon walker Walton "Ware "Warren Washington Wayne Webster White Whitfield... Wilcox ..... Wilkes Wilkinson .. Worth Area in square miles. 330 310 440 400 620 290 680 740 230 180 330 600 460 440 710 IDAHO. 84,290 19, 180 1,300 3,300 3,800 Idaho 10, 100 5,580 5,530 3,400 12, 310 8,130 2,760 BoisA Shoshone ..... 6,950 Ada 3,000 ILLDTOIS. The State Adams Alexander Bond Boone Brown Bureau Calhoun CarroU Cass Champaign Christiaji Clark Clay Clinton Coles Cook Crawford Cumberland DeKalb DeWitt Douglas DuPage Edgar Edwards 56, 000 230 3S0 290 300 870 260 440 360 1,000 690 510 470 520 520 960 470 350 650 440 410 340 630 220 Effingham , Eayette I'ord Franklin... Fulton G-allatin . . . Greene Grundy — Hamilton . Hancock . . Hardin Henderson Henry Iroquois ... Jackson . . . Jasper Jefferson.. Jersey Jo DaTiess. Johnson ... Kane iKankakee . Kendall... Knox Lake La Salle... 490 720 490 430 870 340 530 440 440 780 180 3'80 830 1,100 580 470 580 360 650 340 540 680 330 720 490 Lawrence — Lee Livingston- , , Logan McDonough McHenry . . . McLean ... . Macon Macoupin — Madison Marion Marshall Mason Massac Menard Mercer Monroe Montgomery. Morgan Moultrie Ogle Peoria Perry Piatt Pike Pope 740 1,040 620 580 650 1,150 580 880 740 580 400 560 240 320 540 380 740 580 340 780 630 440 440 810 360 Pulaski Putnam Bandolph... Kichland Kock Island Saint Cladr.. Saline Sangamon . . Schuyler Scott Shelby Stark Stephenson . Tazewell... Union Vermilion .. Wabash Warren Washington Wayne White Whiteside . . Will Williamson . Winnebago . Woodford... 190 170 560 380 420 680 380 860 430 250 760 290 560 660 400 1,000 220 640 540 720 500 700 860 440 540 540 ESTDIAlsrA. The State Adams Allen Bartholomew .. " Benton Blackford Boone Brown CarroU Cass Clark Clay Clinton Crawford Daviess Dearborn Decatur DeKalb Delaware Dubois Elkhart Fayette 35, 910 330 650 400 380 170 420 330 370 420 400 360 400 270 430 300 380 370 400 410 470 210 Floyd Fountain .. FrankUn. .. Fulton Gibson Grant Greene Hamilton . . Hancock... Han-ison... Hendricks . Henry Howard Huntington Jackson Jasper Jay Jefferson... Jennings .- Johnson ... Knox Kosciusko . Lagrange - . Lake 140 390 400 380 490 420 540 400 330 470 400 400 300 380 510 570 420 370 380 320 510 570 400 600 La Porte Lawrence... Madison Marion Marshall Martin Miami Monroe Montgomery Morgan Ifewton Noble Ohio Orange Owen Parke Perry Pike Porter Posey Pulaski Putnam Bandolph ... Eipley 640 440 450 400 430 340 360 430 470 430 400 420 90 400 390 440 380 330 410 410 430 490 460 450 Bush Saint Joseph. Scott Shelby Spencer Starke .. Steuben Sullivan Switzerland. . Tippecanoe.. Tipton Union Vanderburgh Vermillion... Vigo Wabash Warren Warrick Washington . Wayne Wells White Whitley 400 470 190 400 390 300 330 440 230 500 260 170 230 270 410 430 360 300 600 390 370 600 330 IOWA. The State 'Adair ^Adams Allamakee Appanoose 55,475 576 432 600 500 Audubon Benton Black Hawk . 'Boone Bremer 'Buchanan — Bnena Vista. . 432 720 576 576 432 576 576 Butler Calhoun CarroU Cass Cedar Cerro Gordo Cherokee . . . 676 576 576 676 676 676 576 Chickasaw. Clarke Clay Clayton Clinton — Crawford.. Dallas 500 432 576 740 680 720 576 14 AREAS OF THE STATES AND TERRITORIES. IOWA— Oontinuecl. Comities. BaviB Decatnr. . i . Delaware . . Des Moines Dickinson., Dubnctne... Bmmet Fayette Floyd Franklin... Fremont... Greene Gmndy Gnthne Hamilton .. Hancock... Hardin Harrison... Henry Area in sqnare miles. 500 620 576 400 400 600 400 720 500 576 500 576 600 576 576 576 676 630 432 Connties. Howard . . Humboldt Ida Iowa Jackson .. Jasper Jenerson . Johnson .. Jones Keokuk . . Kossutb . . Lee Lum Louisa Lucas Lyon Madison . . Makaeka. . Marion . . . Area in square miles. 500 432 432 576 610 720 432 676 576 576 972 486 720 360 432 612 576 576 676 Counties. Marshall Mills MitoheU Monona Monroe Montgomery.. Muscatine O'Brien Osceola Page Palo Alto Plymoutli Pocahontas ... Polk Pottawattamie Poweshiek Binggold Sac Area in square miles. 576 420 480 684 432 432 432 576 432 540 576 820 .576 576 900 576 540 576 Connties. Scott Shelby Sioux Story Tama Taylor Union Van Buren. . "Wapello — Warren Washington Wayne Webster Winnebago . Winneshiek Woodbury . . Worth Wright Area in square miles. 440 576 720 576 720 540 430 480 430 576 576 525 720 400 720 800 400 576 KANSAS. The State, Allen , Anderson Arapahoe Atchison , Barbour , Barton Bourbon , Brown Buffalo Butler Chase Chautauqua — Cherokee , Cheyenne , Clark Clay Cloud Coffey Comanche Cowley ■ Crawford Davis Decatur Dickinson 81, 700 504 576 576 400 1,150 900 650 576 576 1,428 744 650 576 1,020 1,188 660 720 648 1,170 1,116 580 392 000 840 Doniphan.. Douglas ... Edwards... Elk Ellis Ellsworth . Foote Ford Franklin... G-ove Graham ... Grant Greeley Greenwood Hamilton . . Harper Harvey Hodgeman . Jackson ... Jefferson .. Jewell Johnson ... Kansas Kearney . . . Kingman .. Labette Lane 378 456 972 660 900 720 720 1,080 576 720 900 576 792 1,152 900 810 540 804 640 560 900 450 810 864 864 670 756 Leavenworth . Lincoln Linn Lyon , MiPherson ... Marion. - Marshall Meade Miami Mitchell Montgomery.. Morris l^emaha Neosho Ness Noiton Osage Osborne Ottawa Pawnee Phillips Pottawatomie Pratt Rawlins Eeno Eepnblio Eice 450 720 576 850 720 900 900 936 676 720 648 684 720 576 1,080 900 720 900 720 766 900 860 720 1,080 1,260 720 720 Riley Rooks .. Rush Russell Saline Scott Sedgwick . - . Sequoyah... Seward Shawnee Sheridan Sherman Smith Stafford Stanton Stevens Sumner Thomas Trego Wabaunsee . Wallace Washington Wichita Wilson Woodson ... Wyandotte . 600 900 720 900 720 720 1,000 864 648 576 720 1,080 900 792 696 648 1.188 864 900 796 2,556 900 720 676 504 160 KENTUCKT. The State, Adair AUen Anderson Ballard Barren Bath Bell Boone Bourbon Boyd Eoyle Bracken Breathitt Breckinridge ... Bullitt Bntler Caldwell Calloway Campbell Carroll Carter Casey Christian Clark Clay Clinton Crittenden Cumberland 40, 000 400 300 180 420 600 290 190 300 300 250 180 200 450 500 300 370 310 460 120 160 790 300 590 210 420 200 420 500 Daviess Edmonson Elliott Estm Fayette Fleming Floyd Franklin Fulton Gallatin Garrard Grant Graves Grayson Green Greenup Hancock Hardin Harlan Harrison Hart Henderson Henry Hickman Hopkins Jackson Jefferson Jessamine Josh Bell Johnson , 460 280 220 300 300 340 500 200 200 150 250 200 600 590 300 380 200 300 410 380 400 460 260 240 450 300 430 300 190 360 Kenton Knox La Rue Laurel Lawrence Lee Leslie Letcher Lewis Lincoln Livingston... Logan ... Lyon McCracken . . McLean Madison Magoffin Marion Marshall Martin Mason Meade Menifee Mercer Metcalfe Monroe Montgomery., Morgan Mumenburgh Nelson.., 150 400 300 620 500 120 300 300 960 300 280 590 300 330 230 440 300 330 360 300 400 440 200 260 400 600 250 Nicholas Ohio Oldham Owen Owsley Pendleton .. Perry Pike Powell Pulaski Robertson . . Rockcastle. . Rowan Russell Scott Shelby Simpson Spencer Taylor Todd Trigg Trimble .... XTnion Warren Washington Wayne ..... WeDster Whitley Wolfe Woodford .. 540 270 360 250 280 400 400 140 640 120 300 300 300 240 240 400 400 250 280 350 420 150 350 560 300 430 280 560 190 200 LOUISIANA. The State Ascension Assumption AvoyeUea , Bienville 45, 420 Caddo 373 327 852 856 Caldwell CameTon Catahoula Claihome 773 852 3,400 535 1,545 1,378 796 Concordia DeSoto East Baton Rouge EaatCarroU...:.. East Feliciana Franklin Grant 680 866 442 400 483 596 642 Iberia Iberville... Jackson ... Jefferson -- La Fayette Lafourche . Lincoln 582 646 590 395 262 1,024 485 AREAS OF THE STATES AND TERRITORIES. 15 LOUISIANA— Contmued. Conntiea. Area in square miles. Counties. Area in square miles. Counties. Area in square miles. Counties. Area in square miles. Livingston 6U0 672 842 1,290 187 640 930 576 1,498 Bed River 386 578 1,008 680 284 423 308 190 2,276 618 648 923 790 612 1,806 910 1,226 1,540 668 612 210 380 370 970 Madison Eichland Rn.iTi+. Mn.rf.in Morehouse Sabine NatcUtoches Saint Bernard Orleans Onachita Saint Helena Plaquemines Point Goup6e Saint John Baptist Kapides ..................... MAINE. The State. Androscoggin. . Aroostook 29,895 475 7,200 Cumberland Franklin Hancock Kennebec... Knox 1,000 1,600 1,650 875 325 Lincoln Oxford Penobscot . Piscataquis Sagadahoc . 525 1,900 2,900 3,600 260 Somerset ... "Waldo "Washington York 3,510 810 2,480 785 MAEYLAND, The state 9,860 Cafolitie 300 430 470 450 630 620 600 420 200 310 600 600 420 400 CarroU 460 520 390 600 220 Cecil Kent Talbot 280 360 Baltimore- 320 MASSACHUSETTS. The State Barnstable Berkshire 8,040 290 1,000 Bristol.. Dukes . . Essex. . . Franklin 530 120 500 680 Hampden. . Hampshire Middlesex . Nantucket. 640 Norfolk.... Plymouth. Suffolk ... "Worcester 530 725 15 1,550 MICHIGAN. The State, Alcona Allegan Alpena Antrim . .. Baraga Barry Bay Benzie Berrien Branch Calhoun Cass Charlevoix Cheboygan Chippewa Clare Clinton Crawford , 57,430 700 830 680 540 900 580 820 340 680 600 720 600 380 860 2,000 680 580 580 Delta Eaton Emmet Genesee Gladwin Grand Traverse Gratiot Hillsdale Houghton Huron Ingham Ionia Iosco .1 Isabella Isle Koyale Jackson Kalamazoo Kalkaska Kent Keweenaw Xiake 1,100 580 460 640 640 460 580 610 1,000 750 560 580 580 580 230 720 580 580 860 360 580 Lapeer Leelanaw Lenawee Livingston. _ . Mackinac Macomb Manistee Manitou Marquette . . . Mason Mecosta Menominee . . Midland Missaukee . . . Monroe Montcalm — Montmorency Muskegon — Newaygo Oakland ..... 760 580 1,100 480 650 200 3,400 500 680 1,400 630 580 600 720 580 520 860 800 Oceana Ogemaw Ontonagon... Osceola Oscoda Otsego Ottawa Presque lale . Roscommon . Saginaw Samt Clair... Saint Joseph Sanilac Schoolcraft . . Sliiawassee . . Tuscola Van Buren . . "Washtenaw.. "Wayne "Wexford 540 570 2,540 580 580 540 640 750 580 840 720 620 960 2, 030 540 830 620 720 600 580 MINNESOTA. The State Aitkin Anoka Becker "Raffirami Benton Big Stone Blue Earth Brown Carlton Carver Cass Chippewa Chisago Clay Cook Cottonwood .... Crow "Wing..... Dakota 79,205 1,900 460 1,440 5,000 390 500 760 600 860 360 4,000 580 430 1,000 460 640 580 600 Dodge Douglas Faribault Fillmore Freeborn Goodhue Grant Hennepin — Houston Isanti Itasca Jackson Kanabec Kandiyohi . . . Kittson Lao-qui-parle Lako Le Sueur Lincoln Lyon 430 720 720 860 720 760 680 610 580 420 5,000 720 540 860 2,265 680 3,000 460 430 720 McLeod ... Marshall... Martin Meeker — Mille Lacs . Morrison .. Mower Murray Nicollet. . . Nobles Olmsted ... Otter Tail . Pine Pipe Stone Polk Pope Ramsey Redwood .. Renville ... Rice 500 1,980 720 630 580 1,150 720 720 460 720 660 2,200 1,400 460 4,000 720 180 900 900 520 Rock Saint Louis Scott Sherburne Sibley Steams Steele Stevens Swift Todd Traverse Wabasha "Wadena "Waaeoa "Washington "Watonwan "WUkin "Winona "Wright Yellow Medicine 470 6,000 400 460 680 1,350 430 580 680 1,000 660 540 540 430 400 430 830 660 700 640 16 AREAS OF THE STATES AND TEERITORIES. MISSISSIPPI. Counties. Area in Bqnaie miles. Comities. Area in square miles. Counties. Area in square miles. Counties. Area in square miles. The State Adams': Alcorn .'^ Amite ......... Attala Benton Bolivar ..,, Calhonn , Carroll Chickasaw Clioctaw Claiborne Clafke , Clay Coahoma ....... Copiali.... Covington Be Soto , 46, 310 410 400 720 720 360 900 580 640 500 270 460 650 400. 500 750 580 460 Franklin. -- G-reene Grenada ... Hancock... Harrison.. - Hinds Holmes Issaqnena . Itawamba . Jackson ... Jasper Jefteraon .. Jones Xemper ... La Fayette Xianderdale Lawrence . . Leake . Lee 560 790 440 940 1,000 800 750 390 550 1,140 680 510 700 750 720 680 620 580 S40 LeHore Lincoln Lowndes Madison Marion Marsliall Monroe Montgomery Kesboba Newton Noxubee Oktibbeha.. Panola Perry Pike Pontotoc Prentiss Quitman .... Eankin . . , 610 580 500 720 1,500 720 .790 430 S80 580- 680 430 680 1,000 720 530 410 400 800 Scott Sharkey Simpson ...... Smith Sumner SunHower... Tallahatchee.. Tate Tippah Tishomingo... Tunica Union Warren Washington .. Wayne Wilkinson Winston Talabosha Yazoo 580 540 580 600 400 720 640 390 450 450 440 360 600 900 790 650 690 460 1,000 MISSOURI. The state Adair Andrew Atchison Audrain Barry Barton Bates Benton Bollinger Boone Buchanan Butler Caldwell Callaway Camden Capo Girardeau Carroll Carter _ Cass ; Cedar Chariton Christian Clark Clay , I Clinton Cole Cooper 68, 735 570 420 580 690 800 580 900 760 540 680 420 580 440 760 720 540 690 500 690 490 740 540 500 410 450 400 S60 Crawford . Dade Dallas DeKalb... Dent Douglas . . . Dunklin ... Franklin .. Gasconade . Gentry Greene Grundy Harrison... Henry Hickory . . . Holt.- Howard Howell Iron Jackson Jasper , Jefferson .. Johnson Knox Laclede La Fayette , Lawrence . . . Lewis 720 500 530 580 450 720 800 600 870 510 500 650 400 750 760 410 470 450 920 550 600 680 650 800 520 750 630 620 520 Lincoln Linn Livingston McDonald Macon Madison Maries Marion Mercer „. Miller Mississippi Moniteau Monroe Montgomery Morgauphin Delaware ... Elk Erie Eayette Forest Eranklia — Tnlton Greene Huntingdon Indiana Jefferson — 570 1,130 860 480 1,000 550 520 190 770 770 830 430 760 440 620 900 830 640 Juniata Lackawanna — , Lancaster Lawrence Lebanon Lehigh Luzerne Lycoming McHcan Mercer Mifflin Monroe Montgomery Montour Northampton — Northumberland Perry 400 440 970 370 350 360 910 1,205 1,000 660 380 600 480 140 380 460 480 Philadelphia... Pike Potter , Schuylkill Snyder Somerset Sullivan Susqnehanna . Tio^a Union Venango , Warren Washington . . Wayne, Westmoreland Wyoming York 130 630 1,070 840 320 1,100 430 830 1,120 310 660 910 890 740 1,040 400 920 EHODE ISLAND. The State. Bristol 1,085 25 Kent Newport. 190 130 Providence . 390 Washington . 350 SOUTH CAEOLIKA. The State Abbeville Aiken Anderson Barnwell Beaufort Charleston 30, 170 960 720 760 1,300 1,100 2,000 Chester Chesterfield Clarendon .. Colleton — Darlington.. Edgefield ... Eairfleld.... Georgetown Greenville . . 580 800 720 1,900 900 1,200 900 900 690 Hampton Horry Eershaw Lancaster Laurens Lexington . . . Marion Marlborough Newberry ... 800 1,100 900 600 650 1,100 1,100 540 620 Oconee Orangebnigh .. Pickens Bichland Spartanburgh . Sumter Union Williamsbnrgh York 550 1,400 610 620 950 900 700 980 720 TENIJOESSEE. The State Anderson Bedford Benton Bledsoe Blount Bradley Campbell Cannon Can'oU Carter Cheatham Claiborne Clay Cocke Coffee Crockett Cumberland ... Davidson Deoatnr DeKalb Dickson Dyer 41, 750 440 520 380 280 770 340 400 220 650 340 370 340 260 540 300 260 690 500 310 300 630 570 Fayette Fentress... Fi-anklin.. Gibson Giles Grainger . Greene Grundy Hamblen . Hamilton . Hancock... Hardeman Hardin ... Hawkins... Haywood . Henderson Henry Hickman . Houston . . Humphrey! Jackson ... James Jefferson . Johnson .. 640 500 690 560 590 320 530 400 150 370 340 010 610 570 570 580 550 610 260 450 280 200 320 390 Knox Lake Lauderdale . . Lawrence Lewis Lincoln Loudon McMinn McNairy — Macon Madison Marion Marshall Maury Meigs Monroe Montgomery Moore Morgan Obion Overton Perry Polk Putnam 500 210 410 590 360 MO 230 48r -Shelby. 280 580 500 350 590 300 500 540 270 400 540 540 400 400 460 Hhea Roane ...... Hobertson .. Eutberford . Scott Sequatchie. . .Sevier . Smith. Stewart Sullivan Sumner Tipton Trousdale ... Unicoi Union Van Bnren . . Warren Washington . Wayne Weakley White .., Williamson - . Wilson 340 450 500 590 640 220 520 690 360 500 400 530 330 180 480 220 340 440 350 710 620 440 540 410 AREAS OF THE STATES AND TERRITORIES. 19 TEXAS. Comities. The State. Anderson Andrews Angelina Aramsas Archer Armstrong Atascosa Austin Bailey Bandera Bastrop Baylor Bee Bell Bexar Blanco Borden Bosc^ne Bowie Brazoria Brazos Briscoe Brown Burleson Bnmet Caldwell Calhoun Callahan . -. Cameron Camp Carson Cass Castro Chambers Cherokee Childless ..- Clay Cochran Coleman.-. Collin Collingsworth Color&o Comal Comanche Concho Cooke Coryell Cottle Crockett Crosby DallanL Dallas Dawson Deaf Smith ... Area in square miles. 262, 290 1,000 1,500 880 440 900 900 1,200 700 1,050 1,000 900 900 1,000 1,180 710 900 1,000 900 1,400 520 900 1,200 650 1,000 540 960 900 3,000 200 900 950 900 850 1,000 750 1,100 820 1,240 880 900 900 670 930 950 900 950 1,100 9,500 900 1,400 900 900 1,400 Counties. Delta Denton DeWitt Dickens Dimmit Donley Duval Eastland Edwards Ellis , El Paso EnciBal Erath Falls Fannin Fayette Fisher Floyd Fort Bend Franklin Freestone l-rio Gaines Galveston Garza '. Grillespie Goliad Gonzales Gray Grayson Gregg Grimes Guadalupe Hale Hall Hamilton Hansford Hardeman Hardin Harris Harrison Haxtley Haskell Hayes Hemphill Henderson Hidalgo HiU Hockley Hood Hopkins Houston Howard Hunt Hutchinson Jack Jackson Area in square niiles. 260 900 900 900 1,000 900 1,700 900 950 950 8,000 1,700 1,000 780 890 960 900 1,100 880 300 880 1,000 1,500 670 900 980 820 1,070 900 960 280 *780 710 1,100 900 980 910 1,180 820 1,800 900 1,470 900 080 900 960 2,350 1,000 900 490 750 1,170 900 870 900 870 900 Counties. Jasper Je^rson Johnson Jones Karnes Kaufman Kendall Kent Kerr Kimble King Kinney Knox Lamar Lamb Lampasas La Salle Lavaca Lee Leon Liberty Limestone Lipscomb Live Oak Llano Lubbock Lynn McCulloch McLennan McMullen Madison Marion Martin Mason Matagorda — Maverick Medina Menard Milam MitcheU Montague Montgomery. . Moore Mori'is Motley I^ocogdoches .. Navarro Newton Nolan Nueces OchUtree Oldham Orange Palo Pinto Panola ,. Parker Parmer ....... Area in square miles. 970 1,000 690 900 730 830 670 900 1,100 1,300 900 1,700 900 900 1,100 850 1,600 1,000 600 1,000 1,170 970 900 1,100 900 900 900 1,000 1,080 1,160 460 420 900 900 1,400 1,300 1,300 900 890 1,060 900 260 1,140 970 1,040 870 900 2,800 900 1,470 390 960 800 900 850 Counties. Pecos Polk Potter Presidio Kains - Bandall EedKiver i Eef ngio Eoberts Eobertson Eockwall KunneU Husk Sabine San Au^stine San Jacinto San Patricio San Saba Shackleford Shelby Sherman Scurry Smith Somervell Starr Stephens Stonewall Swisher Tarrant Taylor Terry Throckmorton Titus Tom Green Travis Trinity Tyler Uj)shur Uvalde Van Zandt "Victoria Walker "Waller Washington Webb "Wharton "Wheeler "Wichita "Wilbarger "Williamson "Wilson "Wise "Wood Toung Yoakum Zapata Zavalla '. Area in square miles. 11, 000 1,100 900 12, 500 270 900 1,060 850 900 870 150 990 920 570 560 640 730 1,130 900 800 910 900 960 200 2,500 900 900 900 900 900 900 900 420 12, 300 1,000 710 920 520 1,550 840 880 760 500 600 1,500 1,070 900 S90 940 1,100 790 900 700 900 820 1,290 1,290 The Territory . Beaver BoxElde;: Cache Davis 82, 190 2,560 8,200 1,000 220 UTAH. Emery Iron Juab Kane Mfllard Morgan PiUte * 7,500 7,730 3,760 3,800 6,550 620 3,700 Eich Salt Lake - San Juan . Sanpete .- Sevier Summit... 820 760 9,100 2,790 1,700 3,840 Tooele Uinta Utah "Wasatch . . - Washington "Weber 5,200 6,160 1,520 2,480 1,580 610 The Stat« Addison Bennington Caledonia... Chittenden . Essex Franklin VBEMONT. 640 515 780 620 Grand Isle ., Lamoille — Orange Orleans 80 450 700 Eutland "Washington . "Windham "Windsor 900 580 800 1,000 VIEGIOTA. The State Accomac Albemarle Alexandria — Alleghany Amelia .-.: Amherst Appomattox . . - Angusta Bath Bedford Bland 480 680 40 500 360 430 280 900 750 840 400 Botetourt... Brunswick.. Buchanan . . . Buckingham Campbell . . . Caroline — Carroll Charles City Charlotte... Chesterfield Clarke Craig Culpeper ... Cumberland 550 580 510 690 450 500 540 190 500 500 220 300 400 280 Dinwiddle Elizabeth City Essex Fairfax Fauquier Floyd Fluvanna Franklin Frederick Giles Gloucester — Goochland Grayson Greene 540 50 300 440 720 320 270 720 380 490 280 260 460 200 GreenBville Halifax Hanover Henrico Henry Highland Isle of "Wight... James City King and Queen King George King William... Lancaster Lee Loudoun 330 800 440 280 400 400 290 150 360 180 270 110 550 520 20 Counties. AREAS OF THE STATES AND TERRITORIES. VIEGINIA— Continued. Lonisa Lonenbnig Madison Matthews Meoklenbnrg Middlesex Montgomery Nansemond Nelson New Kent Norfolk Northampton Area in sqnaTe miles. 470 400 320 100 610 150 450 400 460 210 480 300 Counties. NoTthumbeil^d — Nottoway Orange Page Patrick Pittsylvania Powfiatan Prince Edward Prince George Princess Anne Prince "William Pnlaski Area in square miles. 180 300 360 320 540 900 280 300 300 380 430 340 Connties. Happahannock. . Eiohmond Boanoke Kockbridge Kockingham . ■ ■ Bussell Scott Shenandoah Smyth Southampton . . Spottsylvania- . . Area in square mUes. 240 140 280 780 000 540 520 510 490 610 380 Counties. Stafford Surry Sussex Tazewell Warren .> ■Waiwiok Washington . . . Westmoreland . Wise Wythe Xork :.. Area in square miles. 260 325 400 400 250 100 490 170 390 520 70 The Territory . Ohehalis.. Clallam... Clarke Columbia . WASHINGTOK 66, 880 2,440 2,300 1,300 2,160 Cowlitz . . Island ... Jefferson King .... Kitsap . . . Klikitat . Lewis .. 400 260 1,600 1,900 380 2,300 1,600 Mason — Pacific Pierce SanJnan .. Skamania . Snohomish SteTens 1,000 650 1,520 650 1,800 2,160 23, 260 Thnrston Wahkiakum . Walla. Walla. , Whatcom Whitman Yakima 800 ISO 1,260 3,200 5,000 8,900 WEST VIEGINIA. The State Barbour Berkeley Boone Braxton Brooke CabeU Calhoun Clay Doddridge Fayette Gilmer Grant r 24, 80 300 260 390 300 750 360 520 Greenbrier Hampshire Hancock... Hardy Harrison. . Jackson ... Jefferson.. Kanawha . Lewis Lincoln — Lo^n McDowell Marion ... Marshall . 1,000 630 100 700 • 450- 400 250 980 400 460 800 860 300 240 Maaon Mercer Mineral Monongalia Monroe Morgan Nicholas — Ohio Pendleton . Pleasants . - Pocahontas Preston Putnam Baleigh 360 400 300 360 460 300 720 120 650 150 820 650 320 Bandolph . Bitchie . . . Boane — Summers Taylor Tucker ... Tyler Tlpshnr . . Wayne .. Webster . Wetzel .. Wirt Wood Wyoming 400 350 400 150 340 300 350 440 450 440 290 375 660 WISCONSIN. The State. Adams Ashland Barron Bayfield Brown Buffalo Burnett Calumet Chippewa Clark Columbia Crawford Dane Dodge 54,450 680 1,600 900 1,400 540 600 1,600 290 3,000 1,200 730 500 1,200 900 Door Doaglns Buhd Eau Claire.. Fond du Lac Grrant Green Green Lake . Iowa Jackson — Jefferson Juneau !Kenoslia — Kewaunee . . La Crosse... La Fayette - Langlade . . . 470 1,300 860 650 720 1,200 640 360 740 1,000 570 800 280 330 450 630 4,000 Lincoln Manitowoc Marathon.. Marinette . Marquette . Milwaukee Monroe — Oconto Outagamie. Ozaukee ... Pepin Pierce Polk Portage Price Bacine 590 1,500 1,600 450 240 900 1,500 1,600 640 240 280 570 940 800 1,000 340 Bichland Bock Saint Croix .. Sauk Shawano Sheboygan... Taylor Trempealeau Vernon Walworth ... Washington . Waukesha... Waupaca Waushara ... Winnebago .. Wood 570 720 740 800 1,200 500 900 740 800 570 430 580 750 640 460 WYOMING. The Territory . Albany 97,575 11, 000 Carbon 13,500 Crook 10,000 Johnson . Laramie . 11,000 6,800 Sweetwater. tJinta 30,275 15,000 Holeasei for use of pi'ternoon papers on April 11. I9U1 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE BUREAU OF THE CENSUS WASHINGTON SIXTEENTH CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES 1940 LAND AND WATER AKEA OF THE UNITED STATES JJY STATES: 1940 Acting Director Vergil D. Reed, of the Bvireau of the Census, Department of Commerce, today announced the land and water area of the United States by States as remeasured to supplement the Six- teenth Decennial Census. These area figures, prepared with the fi- nancial assistance of Federal Work Projects Administration Official Project No. 65-2-26-23, present a summary release for a report which will appear during 1941 covering the land and water areas of the counties, minor civil divisions, and cities of the United States. These entirely new determinations represent the first basic re- measurement of the United States since the work of Henry Gannett, prepared for the Tenth Decennial Census of 1880. Since that date, revisions of State and county areas have been released by the Bureau of the Census in connection with each census and from time to time in special bulletins and reports by the General land Office, the U. S. Geological Survey, the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, and the U. S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics, as well as for individu- al States by various State agencies. Although these figvires em- bodied corrections necessitated by boundary changes and Improvements in maps, they represented adjustments either to figures heretofore published for individual State areas or to the total area of the United States as originally determined by Henry Gannett. Greatly improved maps made it possible to undertake the re- measurement of the United States at this time. This work, which in- volved a procedure approved by the principal map-making agencies of the Federal Government, was based on a set of U. S. Coast and Geo- detic Survey aeronautical charts on a scale of 1:500,000. The area of the United States by States was computed by using international geodetic tables^ giving the values of all areas of 30 minutes on a side which fell entirely within each State, combining with these areas the partial areas of 30-mlnute squares within each State as determined by planimeter measurement. For the complete report, ^ The Smithsonian Geographical Tallies based on the Clarke spheroid were used, but they were adjusted to conform to the current legal ratio of 39.37 inches to the meter. which will be available at a later date, counties shown on the U. S. Geological Survey and Post Office Department State maps (on scales of 1:500,000 and 1:750,000, respectively) were measured and adjusted to the State totals computed from the aeronautical charts; whereas, for the minor civil division and city areas, the best available large-scale highway, post route, topographic quadrangle, or miscel- laneous map for each county was measured and adjusted to the county area totals. It will be noted that there is an apparent increase of 3,352 square miles of land in the United States as compared to the area given In 1930. This increase is largely due to a rather general de- crease in the inland water area as shown on the new large-scale county maps measured for the several States. Direct comparisons be- tween the inland water given and that measured in 1930 are not feas- ible since, in 1930, Chesapeake and Delaware Bays, Puget Sound, and a number of other large coastal embayments, were not differentiated from inland water, as has been done for this report. Individual variations in the land areas of the several States may be ascribed to decreases or increases in water area, map improvements involving longitudinal and latitudinal position, or to the more accurate placement of boundaries. Since these State totals were obtained from base maps on a scale of 1:500,000, the largest scale available on one map projection covering', ',he entire country, it is obvious that no greater accuracy can be claimed than this rather small scale will permit . Further- more, these area figures are in terms of specific definitions for land, inland water, and the outer limits of the United States, as indicated in the footnotes of the table. Since these definitions undoubtedly do not agree with those which aay have been used by other agencies measuring the areas of States, counties, minor civil divisions, and cities, it follows that there may be some variation in the results. Finally, although these areas and those to be pub- lished subsequently will undoubtedly serve a variety of uses, they are considered by the Bureau of the Census to be primarily for sta- tistical purposes. AREA United States- Alabama Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia- Florida Georgia Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Total area In square miles 3,022,387 51 113 53 158 104 5 2 58 58 83 56 36 56 82 40 48 33 10 8 58 84 47 ,609 ,909 ,102 ,693 ,247 ,009 ,057 69 ,560 ,376 ,557 ,400 ,291 ,280 ,276 ,395 ,523 ,215 ,577 ,257 ,216 ,068 ,716 LAUD AREA IN SQUARE MILES 1940 ^ 2,977,128 51,078 113,580 52 , 725 156 , 803 103,967 4,899 1,978 61 54,262 58,518 82,808 55 , 947 36,205 55 , 986 82,113 40,109 45 , 177 31,040 9,887 7,907 57,022 80,009 47,420 + or - 1930 +3,352 -201 -230 +200 +1,151 ♦309 +79 + 13 -1 -599 -207 -546 -96 + 160 +400 +339 -72 -232 +1,145 -54 -132 -458 -849 +1,058 Inland water area in square miles ' 45,259 ^531 329 377 ''1,890 280 *110 ''79 8 '4,298 "358 749 *453 ^°86 294 163 286 ^3,346 ^ 2 , 175 "690 '■■'350 ^1,194 "^4,059 ^''296 AREA Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire- - New Jersey New Mexico -- New York North Carolina- North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina- South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia- - Wisconsin Wyoming Total area in square miles 69,674 147,138 77,237 110,540 9,304 7,836 121,666 49,576 52,712 70,665 41,222 69,919 96 , 981 45,333 1,214 31,055 77 , 047 42,246 267,339 84,916 9,609 40 , 315 68,192 24,181 56 , 154 97,914 LAND AKEA IN SQUARE MILES 1940 ' 69,270 146,316 76,653 109,802 9,024 7 , 522 121,511 47,929 49,142 70 , 054 41,122 69,283 96,350 45 , 045 1,058 30,594 76,536 41,961 263,644 82,346 9,278 39,899 66 , 977 24,090 54,715 97,506 1- or - 1930 +543 + 185 -155 -19 -7 + 8 -992 +275 +402 -129 + 382 -131 + 743 +213 -9 + 99 -332 +274 +1,246 + 162 +154 -363 + 141 +68 -541 -42 Inland water area in square miles^ 404 822 584 738 280 "314 155 ^^1,647 3,570 611 ='°100 636 "631 "238 " 156 ^■'461 511 285 ^^3,695 2,570 331 "916 ^^ 1,215 91 ""1,439 408 ^ Land area i.^ defined to Include: Dry land and land temporarily or partially covered by water, such as marshland, swamps, and river flood plains; streams, sloughs, estuaries, and canals less than one-eighth of a statute mile in width; and lakes, reservoirs and ponds having less than 40 acres of area. ' Inland water is defined to include: Permanent inland water surface, such as lakes, reservoirs and ponds having 40 acres or more of area; streams, sloughs, estuaries, and canals one-eighth of a statute mile or more in width; deeply in- dented embayments and sounds, and otiier coastal waters behind or sheltered by headlands or islands separated by less than one nautical mile of water; and is- lands having less than 40 acres of area. All other water, listed in the foot.aotes for the several States, consists of deeply indented embayments and sounds, and other coastal waters lying between the outer limits set for inland water and be- hind or sheltered by headlands or islands separated by less than 10 nautical miles of water; or as specified by naming the water body in question. ^Excluding Gulf of Mexico coastal waters, 560 square miles. * Excluding Pacific coastal waters, 69 square miles. * Excluding part of Long Island Sound, S73 square miles. * Excluding part of Delaware Bay, 350 square uiles . ' Excluding Atlantic coastal waters, 37 square miles; and Gulf of Mexico coastal waters, 1,698 square mj.les. "Excluding Atlantic coastiil waters , 48 square mi.les. "Excluding part of Lake Uichigan, 1,526 square .-ailes. ^° deluding part of Lake Michigan, 228 square miles. '■^Excluding Gulf of Mexico coastal waters, 1,016 square miles. ■^* Excluding Atlantic coastal waters, 1,102 square miles. ■'•'Excluding part of Chesapeake Bay, 1,726 square miles. '■* Excluding Atlantic coastal waters, 959 square miles. ■'* Biccluding parts of: Lake Erie, 216 square miles; Lake Huron, 8,975 square miles; Lake Michigan, 13,037 square miles; Lake St. Clair, 116 square miles; and Lake Superior, 16,231 square miles. ■^^ Excluding pa-t of Lake Superior, 2,212 square miles. ^''Excluding Gulf of Mexico coastal waters, 556 square miles. ■■■"Excluding parts of: Delaware Bay, 315 square miles; and New York Harbor, 69 square miles . •'■^ Excluding parts of: Lake Erie, 594 square miles; Lake Ontario, 3,033 square miles; Long Island Sound, 726 square miles; and New York Harbor, 23 square miles. ^"Excluding part of Lake Erie, 3,457 square miles. ^^ Excluding Pacific coastal waters, 48 squarre miles. ^^ Excluding part of Lake Erie, 735 square miles. ^■'Excluding Atlantic coastal waters, 14 square miles. "'' Excluding Atlantic coastal waters, 138 square miles. ^^Exciuding Gulf of Mexico coastal waters, 7 square miles. ^^ Excluding part of Chesapeake Bay, 1,511 square miles. ^'Excluding Pacific coastal waters, 226 square miles; Puget Sound, bBl sa.;are miles; and parts of -the Straits of Juan de Fuca and Georgia, 1,610 square miles. ^"Excluding parts of: Lake Michigan, 7,387 square miles; and lAKe Superior , 2,675 square miles. I» j ,-, If :-'^-^-^;-._ ■ ._ .^min^-.-rt.- jii^SJ-v" i-_'C: W-^M^-^-'^f "->;7^-^^Vhs(=*^ -_i:S rSf a4«'« L,F '-■ 1 *- =v^^ , \ s ^ : h--'" Jr / \ \Si.l . .--■ — ^ ■" "^ f 1 -. > ^''n f • V- - u ■^. jvy V-' , ,1 ^ \ ^S^.u^ 'j - \. _ .* "^ «:'S .. 1 -- - UNITED STA^IES DEFiNlKO TIUl gross AREAS or Till; S'lVei'KS Aiil) TERRri'ORlES iftni .