Table 1. Areas of vegetative cover types in the Southern Piedmont, physiographic area 11. Forest coverages are taken from USFS FIA data, nonforest cover types are modified from USGS data. Water coverage is combined from both databases by adding USGS water in the "nonforest" section of the USFS database.

Cover types

Area (ha)

Area (ac)

Percent of Total

Longleaf-slash pine forest

133,800

330,620

1.03

Loblolly-shortleaf pine forest

5,014,400

12,390,582

38.47

Mixed pine-hardwood forest

1,914,500

4,730,730

14.69

Oak-hickory forest

1,539,500

3,804,104

11.81

Oak-gum-cypress forest

314,200

776,388

2.41

Maple-beech-birch forest

29,000

71,659

0.22

Wheat, small grain crops

36,900

91,180

0.28

Corn, soybeans, tobacco, irrigated crops

2,593,000

6,407,303

19.89

Bluestem, grama, wheatgrass grassland

21,900

54,115

0.17

Pasture, hay, mixed crops

350,000

864,850

2.69

Sagebrush, greasewood shrubland

1,400

3,459

0.01

Marshland

25,400

62,763

0.19

Water

285,300

704,596

2.19

Urban

773,900

1,912,307

5.94

No data

700

1,730

0.01

Totals

13,033,900

32,206,766

100