Soil Map Usa

Soil Map Usa. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service These data are intended for geographic display and analysis at the state, regional, and national level


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The Digital General Soil Map of the United States or STATSGO2 is a broad-based inventory of soils and non-soil areas that occur in a repeatable pattern on the landscape and that can be cartographically shown at the scale mapped of 1:250,000 in the continental U.S., Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands and 1:1,000,000 in Alaska Access to SOLUS maps Description SOLUS100 Access Data Citations

The data should be displayed and analyzed at scales appropriate for 1:250,000-scale data. Access maps and databases on soils throughout the United States based on soil surveys conducted since 1899 The data should be displayed and analyzed at scales appropriate for 1:250,000-scale data.

. NRCS has soil maps and data available online for more than 95 percent of the nation's counties and anticipates having 100 percent in the near future The map information content includes maximum soil depth and eight soil attributes including sand, silt, and clay content, gravel content, organic carbon content, pH, cation exchange capacity, and bulk density for the topsoil.

. The site is updated and maintained online as the single authoritative source of soil survey information Select an area of interest (AOI) in the application using a shapefile or zipped shapefile