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    • United States annual state-level population estimates from colonization to 1999

    Metadata Updated: April 21, 2025

    The U.S. landscape has undergone substantial changes since Europeans first arrived. Many land use changes are attributable to human activity. Historical data concerning these changes are frequently limited and often difficult to develop. Modeling historical land use changes may be necessary. We develop annual population series from first European settlement to 1999 for all 50 states and Washington D.C. for use in modeling land use trends. Extensive research went into developing the historical data. Linear interpolation was used to complete the series after critically evaluating the appropriateness of linear interpolation versus exponential interpolation.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons Attribution

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    Metadata Created Date November 3, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date April 21, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from USDA JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 3, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date April 21, 2025
    Publisher U.S. Forest Service
    Maintainer
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    Data First Published 2018-04-26
    Data Last Modified 2022-08-25
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 005:96
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    Harvest Source Title USDA JSON
    Homepage URL https://data-usfs.hub.arcgis.com/documents/usfs::united-states-annual-state-level-population-estimates-from-colonization-to-1999
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
    Metadata Type geospatial
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    Program Code 005:059
    Progresscode onGoing
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