184 MISC. PUBLICATION 218, U.S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
TABLE 65.—Area foreclosed for taxes and held by county, 1928 and 1932-838; selected 
counties, Oregon and Washingion 
1928 1932-33 1928 1932-33 
Ratio Ratio 
to to ; * 
total Ratio tota atio 
State and county Fae ee State and county ates ae 
Area ! joftax-| Area 3| area Area ! lof tax-| Area 3 | area 
able stud- able stud- 
real ied 4 real ied 4 
es- es- 
tate? tate? 
Per- Per- Per- Per- 
Oregon: Acres | cent | Acres | cent | Oregon—Continued.| Acres | cent | Acres | cent 
Baker see ee 2, 753 Ca | eae ee Tillamook_______ 4, 745 0.8 | 74, 883 1355 
Benton see a bee Ae eet 5, 493 1.7 | Washington: | 
Clatsopiesnse= = 12,424 | 2.5 | 34, 067 6. 6 Glallampekae aa 13,302 | 2.6 | 46, 767 8.7 
Columbiass.222) |e |e 19, 833 5.1 Grays Harbor___| 2,941 .4| 9,797 1k 
CO0S 52 ea see TOS 209) eb ie 17: Bae Jefierson. 32 = |B eee ee |e 29,109 | 10.3 
DOuUC ASS se | Se ee | a 42, 256 2.9 Wewis hol 368 | (6) 436 | (6) 
Grant Sess 26707 she 252 See ED EEE MiaSOntOLe Sos Foe 2 eae oh eSeee es 9, 535 2.5 
Josephine ss Sse |e eo 51335 /2 1650 Sno homishie sees | Seana eens 18, 645 5.3 
Kidamath! 2-255 RQ 44M aly Ame lee meee eae | oe Whurstonssa seen | Eee eens bene 5, 306 lSzé 
anebe es aks oo 21,812} 1.8 | 25,572 2. 4 Wialhikda kev yo a eee 5, 011 3.4 
FIN COUBL 5) Sn ee | eee 49, 523 11.2 
1 From county tax rolls. 
2 Computed from column 2 in connection with areas from official reports as follows: Oregon State Tax 
Commission, 81 (Bien. Rept. 10, table 11), and Washington State Board of Equalization (84, 1928, Schedule B, 
2 
sel). 
3 Data furnished by the Pacific Northwest Forest Experiment Station, having been obtained from 
county records. 
£ Computed from column 4 and from areas furnished by the Pacific Northwest Experiment Station. 
The areas studied are the rural parts of the counties, excluding tax-exempt lands, resorts, known agricultural 
zones, and other districts not considered representative of general forest conditions. 
5 Data for 1932-33 preliminary, areas not checked. 
6 Less than 0.05 percent. 
OTHER STATES 
The only other States in which intensive studies were made are 
North Carolina and New Hampshire, and in neither of these States 
had there been at the time of the study any reversion of land to 
public ownership. 
As to the extent of reversion in other States, information is limited 
to that obtained from scattered and frequently unverified reports 
from various sources. The statements usually refer to conditions 
which prevailed about 1930. 
The tax-delinquency problem was not acute anywhere in New 
England, there having been practically no reversion of land in this 
region. There was considerable land reverting for delinquency in 
certain counties of Pennsylvania. In none of the South Atlantic 
States except Florida was any reversion reported, but the volume of 
delinquency was increasing and some reversion in this region seemed 
imminent. 
In Florida it was officially reported that 5,892,358 acres had reverted 
to the State by 1928, and the Florida Land Owners’ Association esti- 
mated on October 30, 1930, that over 7,000,000 acres, one-fifth of the 
land area of the State, had reverted for chronic nonpayment of taxes. 
More recently, the Southern Forest Experiment Station has esti- 
mated ” that approximately 11,800,000 acres, of which 7,670,000 
acres are forest land, have now (July 1, 1933) reverted to the State. 
These areas represent 34 percent of the total land area and 32 percent 
7? See the following: SOUTHERN FOREST EXPERIMENT STATION, ANNUAL REPORT 13: 32-33. 1933. 
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