Maine

Major Land Usage

Courtesy of the USDA Economic Research Service, the reports below display results from the latest inventory of major land usage in Maine in 2002. All numbers below are per 1,000 acres of usage, and encompass the 2.3 billion total acres of land in the U.S.

Land Type	1,000 Acres
Crop	478
Pasture	42
Forest	16,951
Special	590
Urban	223
Other	1,468

How Maine Compares to Other States

• Maine ranked 43rd in Crop Land Usage by using 478,000 acres of land in 2005. The average for all states for Crop Land Usage was 8,658,000 acres.



• Maine ranked 45th in Pasture Land Usage by using 42,000 acres of land in 2005. The average for all states for Pasture Land Usage was 11,500,000 acres.



• Maine ranked 14th in Forest Land Usage by using 16,951,000 acres of land in 2005. The average for all states for Forest Land Usage was 12,768,000 acres.



• Maine ranked 44th in Special Land Usage by using 590,000 acres of land in 2005. The average for all states for Special Land Usage was 5,820,000 acres.



• Maine ranked 43rd in Urban Land Usage by using 223,000 acres of land in 2005. The average for all states for Urban Land Usage was 1,168,000 acres.



• Maine ranked 29th in Other Land Usage by using 1,468,000 acres of land in 2005. The average for all states for Other Land Usage was 4,477,000 acres.

Land Usage Expressed as Total Percentage of Overall Usage

The results in the charts above represent total land usage expressed in 1,000 acres. The chart below displays the same data, but expressed in total percentage of overall land usage.