Data obtained from the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS, USDA), the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS, USDA), and the U. S. Census Bureau (U. S. Dept. Commerce), were compiled into a database that provides acres planted to each of 60 major cotton varieties during the interval 1950-95. Acres for each variety are given each year at the state level for all years from 1950 to 1995, and each year at the county level from 1979 to 1995; county level data prior to 1979 are given only at 5-year intervals from 1952 to 1972, due to unavailability of percentage estimates for specific varieties in intervening years.