Web Soil Survey
Also known as NRCS Web Soil Survey · Soil Survey Geographic Database · SSURGO · State Soil Geographic2 · STATSGO2 · WSS
Web Soil Survey (WSS) provides soil data and information produced by the National Cooperative Soil Survey. It is operated by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and provides access to the largest natural resource information system in the world. NRCS has soil 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 is updated and maintained online as the single authoritative source of soil survey information.
Getting access
Open access Open
- How to apply
- Not yet verified — we don’t publish a route we haven’t checked.
Summarised from a registry — the exact application route is not yet verified.
About this database
| Website | https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/resources/data-and-reports/web-soil-survey |
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| Subjects | Life Sciences · Natural Sciences · Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture and Veterinary Medicine · Geosciences (including Geography) · Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture and Veterinary Medicine · Geophysics and Geodesy · Geography · Soil Sciences |
| Last updated | 2026-09-12 |