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The National Cooperative Soil Survey Program (NCSS) in the United States is a nationwide partnership of federal, regional, state, and local agencies and institutions. This partnership works together to cooperatively investigate, inventory, document, classify, and interpret soils and to disseminate, publish, and promote the use of information about the soils of the United States and its trust ...
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Services: USDA NRCS soil data. Can interact with the dataset with Web Soil Survey online mapping tool. Libre Map Project: Online collection of all digital USGS 1:24K scale topographic maps (as well as various other GIS data) covering the United States, available as a free download. NPScape
Soil map from "Geography of Ohio," 1923. A soil map is a geographical representation showing diversity of soil types or soil properties (soil pH, textures, organic matter, depths of horizons etc.) in the area of interest. [1]
NRCS Web Soil Survey Inventory of the soil resource across the U.S. NRCS Helping People Understand Soils; California Online Soil Survey; Soil Data Access; Texas Soil Surveys, hosted by the Portal to Texas History; Soil Maps of the world European Digital Archive on the Soil Maps of the world; Historical Soil Surveys of South Carolina at the ...
REYNOLDSBURG - The Ohio Department of Agriculture has announced nine land trusts, seven counties or townships and 25 Soil and Water Conservation Districts will receive funding to help preserve ...
Muck soils are defined by the USDA NRCS as sapric organic soils that are saturated more than 30 cumulative days in normal years or are artificially drained. [6] An example would be a soil made up primarily of humus from drained swampland. [citation needed]
This is a list of U.S. state soils. A state soil is a soil that has special significance to a particular state. Each state in the United States has selected a state soil, twenty of which have been legislatively established. These official state soils share the same level of distinction as official state flowers and birds.
A soil family category is a group of soils within a subgroup and describes the physical and chemical properties which affect the response of soil to agricultural management and engineering applications. The principal characteristics used to differentiate soil families include texture, mineralogy, pH, permeability, structure, consistency, the ...