Details
- Soil maps and data are available on-line for more than 95 percent of the nation's counties
- Field mapping methods using national standards are used to construct the soil maps in the SSURGO database
- Designed for use by landowners, townships, and county natural resource management
- Serves as an excellent source for land use planning, environmental planning, and water resources planning
- The following examples of information can be queried from the database: available water capacity, soil reaction, electrical conductivity, and flooding; building site development and engineering uses; cropland, woodland, rangeland, pastureland, and wildlife; and recreational development.
Notes and Limitations: The soil survey attribute database associated with the spatial soil map is a complicated database with more than 50 tables. The user should know about soils data and characteristics.