Map created GrainStats

The map above shows how much of each state’s total land area is dedicated to growing hay.

The data comes from the USDA’s Prospective Plantings report. The map above uses preliminary 2023 data.

Here’s the final data:

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Map created GrainStats

The map above shows how much of each state’s total land area is dedicated to growing Principal Crops.

Crops included in area planted are corn, sorghum, oats, barley, rye, winter wheat, Durum wheat, other spring wheat, rice, soybeans, peanuts, sunflower, cotton, dry edible beans, chickpeas, potatoes, sugarbeets, canola, and proso millet.

Harvested acreage is used for all hay, tobacco, and sugarcane in computing total area planted.

The data comes from the USDA’s Prospective Plantings report. The map above uses preliminary 2023 data.

Here’s the final data:

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Map created GrainStats

The map above shows how much of each state’s total land area is dedicated to growing Soybeans.

The data comes from the USDA’s Prospective Plantings report.

The map above uses preliminary 2023 data.

Here’s the final data:

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Map created GrainStatsThe map above shows how much of each state’s total land area is dedicated to growing corn.

The data comes from the USDA’s Prospective Plantings report. The map above uses preliminary 2023 data.

Here’s the final data:

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The map above looks at US median home prices in each US county.

The data is from Q1 2024 and comes from the National Association of Realtors.

As a resident of London, one of the world’s most expensive cities, I find it fascinating.

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Map created by reddit user Past-Apartment-8455

The map above shows where people in the US get the most speeding tickets relative to population density. Here is a little bit more about the data:

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Map created by Mapper_X

The map above shows the 116 counties in the US with a population larger than Wyoming’s 582,328 people. As a state Wyoming gets 2 senators and 1 congressperson, making it far better represented than these counties.

The 116 counties are:

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Map created by @StatisticUrban

The map above shows 48 hypothetical US states centered around the 48 largest urban areas, such that every point in a state is closer to its urban core than to any other.

This is known a Voronoi partition.

It also shows the predicted number of electoral college votes each state would have, and which way it would lean politically.

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Map created by Dailymint.co

The map above looks at the most vegetarian and vegan friendly US states based on the number of restaurants per million people. Just looking at the map you can see a clear coastal bias for these restaurants compared to more inland states.

Here’s the breakdown by State:

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Map found on redditThe map above looks at various cultural regions of the United States, dividing the country into distinct areas based on cultural, historical, and sometimes geographical differences.

Here’s an overview of the regions shown:

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