@article{Krupa:329899,
      recid = {329899},
      author = {Krupa, Kenneth S. and Horsfield, James E.},
      title = {Socio-Economic Base Report:  Delmarva River Basins Survey},
      address = {1978-06},
      number = {1479-2023-006},
      series = {NRED Working Paper [No. 53]},
      pages = {126},
      year = {1978},
      note = {This socio-economic base report contains historical data  for the use of participants in the Delmarva River Basins  Cooperative Survey.  The agencies of the United States  Department of Agriculture (USDA) assisting in this survey  are the Economics, Statistics, and Cooperatives Service  (ESCS), Soil Conservation Service, and the Forest Service.   These agencies are participating in the survey at the  requests of the states of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia.   This report is a revision of the 1975 Preliminary  Socio-Economic Base Report authored by USDA economists  Susan G. Middleton and James E. Horsfield.},
      abstract = {Excerpts from the report:  The Delmarva Peninsula is  approximately 174 miles from north to south and at the  widest point is 74 miles from east to west.  The region,  encompassing a 7,500 square mile area, contains  approximately 3,565,000 acres of land and 1,282,000 acres  of various types of water.  Since the northern boundary of  this area is located at the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal,  portions of Cecil County, Maryland and New Castle County,  Delaware, are included in the survey area.  In addition,  the survey area encompasses two counties in Delaware (Kent  and Sussex) eight counties in Maryland (Kent, Queen Anne's,  Talbot, Caroline, Dorchester, Wicomico, Somerset, and  Worcester) and two counties in Virginia (Accomack and  Northampton).  The level to gently rolling coastal plains  of the Delmarva Peninsula are deeply incised by streams and  tidal estuaries.  The Peninsula is almost entirely  surrounded by tidewater and the shoreline is irregular with  numerous bays and inlets.  The three bodies of water  surrounding the Peninsula are:  the Chesapeake Bay to the  west, Delaware Bay to the east, and the Atlantic Ocean to  the east-southeast.  The purpose of this report is to  provide a general overview of the social, political, and  economic conditions existing within the survey area and to  serve as a basic point of reference for a series of more  specialized reports.  The objective of the entire series of  reports -- inventorying existing resources, documenting  past economic trends, and presenting future projections --  is to provide detailed information to aid policy makers in  planning for the orderly development, utilization,  management, and conservation of water and related land  resources within the survey area.  This particular report  contains a history of the socio-economic development of the  Peninsula and a summary analysis of the region's  population, economy, and agriculture.  Included are a brief  history of the Peninsula and descriptions of the  Peninsula's population, general economy, agriculture, land  use, and water use along with supporting data descriptive  of current conditions and recent trends.  Additional  appendices present the results of detailed analyses of  economic conditions on the Peninsula today and of  conditions expected to prevail in the future.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/329899},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.329899},
}