Honey, I shrunk the country!

Grab some before it's too late!
Our nation’s land mass has been shrinking almost steadily ever since 1940.

Yikes!

According to the Census Bureau, the land area peaked in 1940 at 3,554,608 square miles. By 1990, it had declined to 3,536,278 square miles. In 2000, a slight increase was recorded of about 1,200 square miles. But since then, the bureau estimates, this land has shrunk by about