USDA Announces Web Soil Survey

 

Posting soil survey information on the Internet is one more step in the USDA?EUR??,,????'???s effort to make information more accessible.

The USDA has launched a Web Soil Survey site that will provide secure public access to the national soils information system. This site is a simple yet powerful way to access and analyze soils data that contributes to every aspect of public and private land use and development. The website has been designed with three easy to use features-Define, View and Explore and operates much like internet sites that provide locator and directional information. The once familiar soil survey publications will be phased out slowly Currently, NRCS has soils 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 site will be updated and maintained online as the single authoritative source of soil survey information.

To view the website go to http://soils.usda.gov/survey. http://soils.usda.gov/survey.