GovBot Soils

Read-only soil survey records for a location in the United States, from the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Soil Survey Geographic Database (SSURGO): the soil map unit at a point or within a small area, component and horizon properties, NRCS interpretation ratings for common land uses, farmland classification and the soil survey area with its version date. No account or sign-in is required.

Source

USDA NRCS Soil Data Access, the NRCS web service for the Soil Data Mart database that holds the official SSURGO data for the United States and Island Jurisdictions. Each result states the survey area, the SSURGO version and the date that version was established, and the retrieval time. Records are read live from NRCS and held for up to ten minutes to limit repeat requests. Queries are built by the service from fixed templates; no caller-supplied query text is sent to NRCS.

Available operations

• Soil map unit at a latitude and longitude, with its components and map unit properties.
• Soil map units within a circle of up to 1,000 meters or a polygon of up to 10 square kilometers, with acreage and percent of area.
• Component and horizon properties of a map unit: texture, drainage class, hydrologic soil group, depth to a restrictive layer, depth to a wet layer, available water capacity, pH and related values.
• NRCS interpretation ratings for a map unit, such as septic tank absorption fields, dwellings with basements and local roads and streets, with the rating class and the limiting features NRCS records.
• Farmland classification at a point or within a radius.
• Soil survey area name, SSURGO version and publication date.

The MCP endpoint is https://soils.govbot.ai/mcp.

Scope and support

Results are mapped soil survey data at the scale of the soil survey, commonly 1:12,000 to 1:24,000. A map unit can include soils that differ from its named components in areas too small to delineate. Results are not an on-site soil investigation, a percolation test, a permit decision or an engineering design, and the service makes no flood or ponding determination. GovBot is not affiliated with or endorsed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, NRCS or any government agency.

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