Title:

Historical maps of land use in Puerto Rico in 1951

Author(s):

Helmer, Eileen H.; Córdova, Juan R.; Quiñones, Maya; Hubing, Nick

Publication Year:

2023

How to Cite:

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Helmer, Eileen H.; Córdova, Juan R.; Quiñones, Maya; Hubing, Nick. 2023. Historical maps of land use in Puerto Rico in 1951. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2023-0041

Abstract:

This data publication contains multiple maps of Puerto Rico scanned at 600 dots per inch: full map scans, scans clipped to mapped areas only, and georeferenced scans of 1:10,000-scale land-use maps from 1950-1951 that were produced by the Rural Land Classification Program of Puerto Rico, a project led by Dr. Clarence F. Jones of Northwestern University. These historical maps classified land use and land cover into 20 different classes, including 13 different types of crops, two classes of forests, four classes of grasslands and other areas, which is a general class for non-rural areas. This package includes maps from 76 out of the 78 municipalities of Puerto Rico, covering 422 quadrangles of a 443-quadrangle grid for mainland Puerto Rico. It excludes the island municipalities of Vieques and Culebra, Mona Island and minor outlying islands.

Keywords:

farming; biota; economy; environment; imageryBaseMapsEarthCover; planningCadastre; society; structure; Climate change; Carbon; Ecology, Ecosystems, & Environment; Animal ecology; Ecology; Geography; Geology; Landscape ecology; Hydrology, watersheds, sedimentation; Environment and People; History; Impact of people on environment; Forest Products; Bioenergy and biomass; Inventory, Monitoring, & Analysis; Monitoring; Resource inventory; Natural Resource Management & Use; Agroforestry; Conservation; Economics; Ecosystem services; Engineering, roads, bridges; Forest management; Landscape management; land classification; georeferenced; historic; land use; land cover; forest cover; agriculture; Puerto Rico

Related publications:

• Jones, Clarence F. 1952. The Rural Land Classification Program of Puerto Rico. Northwestern University Studies in Geography. 1: 1-76. (Included in data publication download: \Supplements\Jones_1952_Rural_Land_Classification_PR.pdf). In: Jones, Clarence F., tech ed. 1952. The Rural Land Classification Program of Puerto Rico. Northwestern University Studies in Geography. Number 1. Evanston, IL: Department of Geography, Northwestern University. 261 pages.
• Jones, Clarence F.; Berrios, Hector. 1956. Report on the Rural Land Classification Program of Puerto Rico, 1949-1952. Revista Geográfica. 18(44): 23–40. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40996397
• Kennaway, Todd A.; Helmer, Eileen H. 2007. The forest types and ages cleared for land development in Puerto Rico. GIScience & Remote Sensing. 44(4): 356-382. https://doi.org/10.2747/1548-1603.44.4.356 https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/30000
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