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1970's Land use data refined with 2000 population data to indicate new residential development for the conterminous United States

Published by U.S. Geological Survey | Department of the Interior | Catalog Last Checked: July 13, 2026 at 06:25 PM | Dataset Last Updated: November 17, 2020 at 12:00 AM
This data set represents U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) historical Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) from the 1970's that has been refined with 2000 population density at the block group level to indicate new residential development representative of the early 2000's. Any area having a population density of at least 1,000 people per square mile had been re-classified as "urban" land in this data set.

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