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National Resource Inventory (NRI)

Table 2
Land cover/use of nonfederal rural land, by state and year
 

1,000 acres

State Year Cropland CRP land Pastureland Forest land Other rural land Total rural land

Illinois

1982

 24,725.8 0.0 3,203.9 3,585.0

657.1

 32,171.8

 

1987

 24,690.8 119.9 2,957.4 3,603.5

658.7

 32,030.3

 

1992

 24,100.4 710.6 2,785.3 3,654.2

665.9

 31,916.4

 

1997

 24,011.1 726.0 2,502.0 3,783.9

652.4

 31,675.4

National Resources Inventory
(Revised December 2000)