Web Soil Survey (WSS) provides soil data and information produced by the National Cooperative Soil Survey.
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The Web Soil Survey (WSS) provides agricultural producers, agencies, Technical Service Providers, and others electronic access to relevant soil and related information needed to make land-use and management decisions. The WSS:
- Provides an alternative to traditional hardcopy publication for quicker delivery of information,
- Provides access to full soil survey report content,
- Provides access to the most current data, and
- Provides customers with the ability to download spatial, tabular, and thematic soils data for use in GIS.
Web Soil Survey
The Web Soil Survey provides agricultural producers, agencies, Technical Service Providers, and others online access to soil and related information needed to make land-use and management decisions.
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Citing Web Soil Survey as a Source of Soils Data
Soil Survey Staff, Natural Resources Conservation Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Web Soil Survey. Available online at the following link: http://websoilsurvey.sc.egov.usda.gov/. Accessed [month/day/year].
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