Soil Survery, Databases & Geography
Latest Edition for Hillsborough County Soil Survery 1989:
USDA Soil Survery By State
- Access Historical Soil Surveys from Internet Archive (500.7 KB)
- Instructions on how to access historical soil surveys (121.89 KB)
- How to download scanned soil survey manuscript (683.85 KB)
- Links_to_Scanned_Manuscripts_In_Box (64.13 KB)
USDA Soil Geography
Soil Geographic Databases
Diagram Showing Heirarchy of Land Resource
- Federal Soil Geographic Data Development and Maintenance
- Digital Soil Geographic Databases (GIS-ready)
- Land Resource Regions (LRR) and Major Land Resource Areas (MLRA)
- Gridded National Soil Survey Geographic Database (gNATSGO)
- Soil Landscapes of the United States (SOLUS)
- U.S. General Soil Map (STATSGO2)
- Soil Survey Geographic (SSURGO) Database
- SSURGO Portal (Beta) Application
- Gridded Soil Survey Geographic (gSSURGO) Database
- Raster Soil Surveys (RSS)
- National Cooperative Soil Survey Soil Characterization Database (Pedons)
- Citing Our Databases
Soil Geographic Tools
- Web Soil Survey
- Soil Data Access
- USDA Geospatial Data Gateway
- Soil Data Viewer
- Series Extent Explorer
- Soil Landscapes 3-D Block Diagrams (coming soon)
Research and Development in Soil Geography
Other Natural Resource Data Sources
- National Resources Inventory (NRI)
- Official Soil Series Descriptions (OSD)
- Soil Classification Database (SC)
- World Soil Resources maps
Internal Soil Geographic Data Management
- NASIS
- Soil Survey Regions Areas and Offices Shapefiles (eAuth required) (coming soon)
- NRCS Soil Data Warehouse Staging Site
- Web Soil Survey Rule and Report Manager Version 1.0
- SC/OSD Maintenance Tool (eAuth and NASIS OSD group membership required)