Using USDA's Web Soil Survey
My personal review: A tool for Professionals and Land Owners/Land Managers Web Soil Survey is an incredibly helpful and powerful tool for customized soil investigations. Whether you're a landowner planning a garden or building a shed, or a professional environmental scientist needing detailed soils data for reports, this tool offers a wealth of features tailored to your selected location. Starting is straightforward: You select your "Area of Interest" by either uploading a shapefile or navigating to your area and draw a bounding box for investigation. For this exercise, I chose to investigate my own property. I used my property as my "Area of Interest" Once you've chosen your location you can start exploring all the features and really "digging" into the soils information. The tool allows you to explore the physical properties of soil in great detail, providing valuable information about flooding frequency, landforms, drainage classes, depth to w...