Gavin de Gruiter
November 16, 2022
Figure 1. Map of Lamar County. Map of Mississippi showing county with cities,road highways,counties,towns (east-usa.com).
Figure 2. Land Cover and Use. North American Land Change Monitoring System. Land Cover, 2015 (Landsat,30m) (conabio.gob.mx).
Lamar County has a variety of different land cover and land uses. There are areas of different vegetation and different types of housing, lifestyle, and towns.
Figure 2 shows the land cover and use of Lamar County and parts of Forrest and Marion County to the East and West, and figure 1 shows the county lines since figure 2 does not have any. The red areas are the urban areas. The red area in the top right side of figure 2 shows the city of Hattiesburg in Forrest County. The red area in the top left side of figure 2 shows the city of Colombia in Marion County. Figure 1 shows Lamar County between these two cities.
There are four major types of landscapes or land usage here. The first is tropical or sub-tropical broadleaf evergreen forest. This is number 3 on the map legend and are the dark green areas. This is the pine forests and woods which are common and dominant in the Mississippi Pine Belt area. The second major landscape is the tropical or sub-tropical shrubland. This is the number 7 on the legend and are the greenish brown areas. The third major landscape is the wetlands. There are many rivers and creeks in Lamar County, and they create a lot of wetlands here. This is number 14 on the legend and are the grayish blue areas, which is easy to spot with all the waterways branching off all over the map. The fourth major landscape in Lamar County is the cropland. This is number 15 on the legend and are the tan areas. There are a few red lines running in Lamar County, which are the major roads, highways, and small towns like Purvis or Sumerall. There are also some tropical or sub-tropical grasslands, which is number 9 on the legend and are the yellow areas. There are also some lakes, which are number 18 and are blue, and there is also a little spot of barren land, which is number 16 and is gray.
Of the 19 landscapes in the legend, there are eight in Lamar County. There is no temperate or sub-polar needleleaf forest, sub-polar taiga needleleaf forest, tropical or sub-tropical broadleaf deciduous forest, temperate or sub-polar broadleaf deciduous forest, mixed forest, temperate or sub-polar shrubland, temperate or sub-polar grassland, sub-polar or polar shrubland lichen moss, sub-polar or polar grassland lichen moss, sub-polar or polar barren lichen moss, or snow and ice landscapes in Lamar County.
This map shows part of what the people in Lamar County do for a living. It shows the areas that people use for farmland and cropland and also shows some of the pine forests used for the lumber industry, but it is not able to show what most people do for a living, it only shows the urban areas that have most of the jobs.
The map shows that Lamar County is made up of many different landscapes, and it is mostly made up of pine forests, shrubland, wetlands, and the farmlands.
Map of Mississippi showing county with cities,road highways,counties,towns (east-usa.com). Accessed November 16, 2022.
North American Land Change Monitoring System. Land Cover, 2015 (Landsat,30m) (conabio.gob.mx). Accessed November 16, 2022.
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