County-based estimates of nitrogen and phosphorus content of animal manure in the United States for 1982, 1987, and 1992

Larry Puckett; Kerie Hitt; Richard Alexander

doi:10.3133/70046661

County-based estimates of nitrogen and phosphorus content of animal manure in the United States for 1982, 1987, and 1992

By: Larry Puckett, Kerie Hitt, and Richard Alexander

https://doi.org/10.3133/70046661

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Abstract

This data set contains county estimates of nitrogen and phosphorus content of animal wastes produced annually for the years 1982, 1987, and 1992. The estimates are based on animal populations for those years from the 1992 Census of Agriculture (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1995) and methods for estimating the nutrient content of manure from the Soil Conservation Service (1992). The data set includes several components.. 1. Spatial component - generalized county boundaries in ARC/INFO format/1/, including nine INFO lookup tables containing animal counts and nutrient estimates keyed to the county polygons using county code. (The county lines were not used in the nutrient computations and are provided for displaying the data as a courtesy to the user.) The data is organized by 5-digit state/county FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) code. Another INFO table lists the county names that correspond to the FIPS codes. 2. Tabular component - Nine tab-delimited ASCII lookup tables of animal counts and nutrient estimates organized by 5-digit state/county FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) code. Another table lists the county names that correspond to the FIPS codes. The use of trade names is for identification purposes only and does not constitute endorsement by the U.S. Geological Survey.

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Puckett, L., Hitt, K., Alexander, R., 1998, County-based estimates of nitrogen and phosphorus content of animal manure in the United States for 1982, 1987, and 1992 (1.0.0), Dataset, https://doi.org/10.3133/70046661.

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Publication type	Report
Publication Subtype	USGS Unnumbered Series
Title	County-based estimates of nitrogen and phosphorus content of animal manure in the United States for 1982, 1987, and 1992
DOI	10.3133/70046661
Edition	1.0.0
Year Published	1998
Language	English
Publisher	U.S. Geological Survey
Publisher location	Reston, VA
Description	Dataset
Country	United States
Online Only (Y/N)	Y
Additional Online Files (Y/N)	N