As anyone who ’s driven through Middle America know , it sense like there ’s very few places in the U.S. that do n’t have at least a few inhabitants . But as a mapby cartographerNik Freemanproves , there are still some amber wave of grain and fruit knit that remain . Emphasis on some .
Highlighted on the Washington Post’sKnow More blogtoday , Freeman ’s mapshows us the place where no one — really , no one — lives . “ Human geographers expend so much time thinking about where people are , ” explains Freeman . “ I thought I might make for some fresh penetration by showing where they are not , lend contrast and circumstance to the typical display of the res publica ’s universe geography . ”
How did he define “ where no one lives ? ” simpleton : By prefer census tract listed with universe zero — in all , over 4.8 million individual pamphlet . How adult is each parcel ? Freeman explain on his web site :
A Block is the modest area unit used by the U.S. Census Bureau for tabulating statistics . As of the 2010 census , the United States lie in of 11,078,300 Census Blocks . Of them , 4,871,270 blocks totaling 4.61 million square kilometers were report to have no population living inside them . Despite make a universe of more than 310 million people , 47 percent of the USA persist unoccupied .
As he also betoken out , this is really a function of the while of the country that are either physically unsufferable to live ( sections of mountain range , for example ) or lawfully protected by the Union government , like Yellowstone and the Everglades .
It ’s not so much that these places are “ empty ” for deficiency of people who want to live there — it ’s that we ’ve made laws that prohibit them to . [ Nik Freeman;Washington Post ]
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