out the whole area. The rest of the commercial forest. In miscel- 

 laneous private ownership, is in parcels varying greatly in size 

 from tracts of thousands of acres owned by land holding companies 

 to small lots owned by individuals. Map 2 shows the holdings of 

 the major companies. Most of the tracts owned by individuals are 

 smal 1 in size . 



Table 1 shows the forest land and nonforest land on a county 

 and area basis in the Albemarle and the Northern Coastal Plain.* 



TABLE 1 - AREA BY LAND CLASS AND COUNTY, 

 ALBEMARLE AREA, NORTHERN COASTAL PLAIN, 1963 

 (In Thousands of Acres) 



COUNTY FOREST LAND NONFOREST LANDS ALL LAND 



Camden 103.3 49„7 153,0 



Chowan 68o6 49,6 115.2 



Currituck 86=6 88.1 174.7 



Dare 182o0 66.3 248.3 



Gates 162<,8 56.7 219.5 



Hyde 275.3 130,5 405.8 



Pasquotank 81,8 64.8 146.6 



Perquimans 101,2 65,9 167,1 



Tyrrell 221o0 34,4 255.4 



Washington 148,7 66,3 215.0 



Albemarle Area 1,431.3 669,3 2,100,6 



Northern Coastal 4,341.3 2,439.0 6,780,3 

 Plain 



*The Northern Coastal Plain is made up of 23 counties located 

 in the northern half of the North Carolina Coastal Plain, See 

 Map 3. The area was designated by the Forest Service of the U,S. 

 Department of Agriculture, This agency prepares surveys, makes 

 inventories, and publishes reports in the various forest regions 

 of the nation,, All of the ten counties in the Albemarle Area lie 

 within the Northern Coastal Plain, 



