MS_STATSGO2_2016

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Tags

State Soil Geographic, Colorado, NASIS, General Soil Map, National Soil Information System, Soils, USDA, United States Department of Agriculture, USA, STATSGO


Summary

These data provide information about soil features on or near the surface of the Earth. Data were collected as part of the National Cooperative Soil Survey. These data are intended for geographic display and analysis at the state, regional, and national level. The data should be displayed and analyzed at scales appropriate for 1:250,000-scale data.

Description

This data set consists of general soil association units. It was developed by the National Cooperative Soil Survey and supersedes the State Soil Geographic (STATSGO) data set published in 2006. It consists of a broad based inventory of soils and nonsoil areas that occur in a repeatable pattern on the landscape and that can be cartographically shown at the scale mapped. The data set was created by generalizing more detailed soil survey maps. Where more detailed soil survey maps were not available, data on geology, topography, vegetation, and climate were assembled, together with Land Remote Sensing Satellite (LANDSAT) images. Soils of like areas were studied, and the probable classification and extent of the soils were determined. Map unit composition was determined by transecting or sampling areas on the more detailed maps and expanding the data statistically to characterize the whole map unit. This data set consists of georeferenced vector digital data and tabular digital data. The map data were collected in 1-by 2-degree topographic quadrangle units and merged into a seamless national data set. It is distributed in state/territory and national extents. The soil map units are linked to attributes in the National Soil Information System data base which gives the proportionate extent of the component soils and their properties.

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Use limitations

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service should be acknowledged as the data source in products derived from these data. Hardcopies utilizing these data shall clearly indicate their source. User agrees not to misrepresent these data, nor to imply that changes made were approved by the Natural Resources Conservation Service. The Digital General Soil Map of U.S. was designed primarily for regional, multicounty, river basin, State, and multistate resource planning, management, and monitoring. Data are not detailed enough to make interpretations at a county level. This soil survey product is not designed for use as a primary regulatory tool in permitting or citing decisions, but may be used as a reference source. The use of these data is not restricted and may be interpreted by organizations, agencies, units of government, or others; however, they are responsible for its appropriate application. Federal, State, or local regulatory bodies are not to reassign to the Natural Resources Conservation Service any authority for the decisions that they make. The Natural Resources Conservation Service will not perform any evaluations of these maps for purposes related solely to state or local regulatory programs. When data from the Digital General Soil Map of U.S. are overlayed

with other data layers, such as land use data, caution must be used in generating statistics on the co-occurence of the land use data with the soil data. The composition of the soil map unit can be characterized independently for the land use and for the soil component, but there are no data on their joint occurrence at a more detailed level. Analysis of the overlayed data should be on a map polygon basis. Additional political, watershed, or other boundaries may be intersected with the soil data. Although the composition of each political and watershed unit may be described in terms of the soil map units, information is not available to assign the components to the boundary units with full accuracy. As with the land use categories, the analysis should be restricted to the classified components. The approximate minimum area delineated is 625 hectares (1,544 acres), which is represented on a 1:250,000-scale map by an area approximately 1 cm by 1 cm (0.4 inch by 0.4 inch). The approximate minimum area delineated for Alaska is 2,500 hectares (6,176 acres), which is represented on a 1:5000,000-scale map by an area approximately 1 cm by 1 cm (0.4 inch by 0.4 inch).Linear delineations are not less than

0.5 cm (0.2 inch) in width. The number of delineations per 1:250,000 quadrangle typically is 100 to 200, but may range up to 400. Delineations depict the dominant soils making up the landscape. Other dissimilar soils, too small to be delineated, are present within a delineation. Digital enlargements of these data to scales greater than at which they were originally mapped can cause misinterpretation of the data. If enlarged, maps do not show the small areas of contrasting soils that could have been shown at a larger scale. The depicted soil boundaries, interpretations, and analysis derived from them do not eliminate the need for onsite sampling, testing, and detailed study of specific sites for intensive uses. Thus, these data and their interpretations are intended for planning purposes only. Data values for some data elements may be incomplete or missing. Where data are unavailable, a mask should be used to exclude the area from analysis. The spatial and tabular data used to create this product are periodically updated. Data are versioned, and users are responsible for obtaining the latest version of the product.


Extent


West

-91.737513

East

-88.095844

North

35.005532

South

30.160164

Scale Range


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1:24,000

Minimum (zoomed out)

1:500,000


ArcGIS Metadata


Topics and Keywords


THEMES OR CATEGORIES OF THE RESOURCE farming


* CONTENT TYPE Downloadable Data


PLACE KEYWORDS Colorado


Thesaurus

TITLE USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)


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PLACE KEYWORDS USA

THEME KEYWORDS State Soil Geographic, NASIS, General Soil Map, National Soil Information System, Soils, USDA, United States Department of Agriculture, STATSGO


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Citation


* TITLE MS_STATSGO2_2016

PUBLICATION DATE 2016-10-04


PRESENTATION FORMATS * digital map

FGDC GEOSPATIAL PRESENTATION FORMAT Tabular digital data and vector digital data


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Responsible party

ORGANIZATION'S NAME U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service

CONTACT'S ROLE originator


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ORGANIZATION'S NAME U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service

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DELIVERY POINT Fort Worth, Texas


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Resource Details


DATASET LANGUAGES English (UNITED STATES)


STATUS completed

SPATIAL REPRESENTATION TYPE vector


* PROCESSING ENVIRONMENT Version 6.2 (Build 9200) ; Esri ArcGIS 10.6.1.9270


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Data Quality


Scope of quality information

RESOURCE LEVEL dataset


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Data quality report - Topological consistency

Evaluation method

Certain node/geometry and topology (GT)-polygon/chain relationships are collected or generated to satisfy topological requirements. (The GT-polygon corresponds to the soil delineation). Some of these requirements include: chains must begin and end at nodes, chains must connect to each other at nodes, chains do not extend through nodes, left and right GT-polygons are defined for each chain element and are consistent throughout, and the chains representing the limits of the file (neatline) are free of gaps. The tests of logical consistency are performed using vendor software. The neatline is generated by connecting the explicitly entered four corners of the digital file. All data outside the enclosed region are ignored and all data crossing these geographically straight lines are clipped at the neatline. Data within a specified tolerance of the neatline are snapped to the neatline. Neatline straightening aligns the digitized edges of the digital data with the generated neatline (i.e., with the longitude/latitude lines in geographic coordinates). All internal polygons are tested for closure with vendor software and are checked on hard copy plots. All data are checked for common soil lines (i.e., adjacent polygons with the same label). Quadrangles are edge matched within the state, merged into a statewide data sets, and then edge matched to adjacent state data sets. Edge locations do not deviate from centerline to centerline by more than 0.01 inch.


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Data quality report - Conceptual consistency

Measure description

Certain node/geometry and topology (GT)-polygon/chain relationships are collected or generated to satisfy topological requirements. (The GT-polygon corresponds to the soil delineation). Some of these requirements include: chains must begin and end at nodes, chains must connect to each other at nodes, chains do not extend through nodes, left and right GT-polygons are defined for each chain element and are consistent throughout, and the chains representing the limits of the file (neatline) are free of gaps. The tests of logical consistency are performed using vendor software. The neatline is generated by connecting the explicitly entered four corners of the digital file. All data outside the enclosed region are ignored and all data crossing these geographically straight lines are clipped at the neatline. Data within a specified tolerance of the neatline are snapped to the neatline. Neatline straightening aligns the digitized edges of the digital data with the generated neatline (i.e., with the longitude/latitude lines in geographic coordinates). All internal polygons are tested for closure with vendor software and are checked on hard copy plots. All data are checked for common soil lines (i.e., adjacent polygons with the same label). Quadrangles are edge matched within the state, merged into a statewide data sets, and then edge matched to adjacent state data sets. Edge locations do not deviate from centerline to centerline by more than 0.01 inch.


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Data quality report - Completeness omission

Measure description

A map unit is a collection of areas defined and named the same in terms of their soil and/or nonsoil areas. Each map unit differs in some respect from all others in a survey

area and is uniquely identified. Each individual area is a delineation. Each map unit in the Digital General Soil Map of U.S. consists of one to more than 21 components. In those few areas where detailed maps did not exist, reconnaissance soil surveys were combined with data on geology, topography, vegetation, climate, and remote sensing images to delineate map units and estimate the percentages of components. Map unit components in this product are soil series phases, and their percent composition represents the estimated areal proportion of each within a map unit. The composition for a map unit is generalized to represent the statewide extent of that map unit and not the extent of any single map unit delineation. These specifications provide a nationally consistent representation of the associated attribute data. The actual composition and interpretive purity of the map unit delineations were based on statistical analysis of transect data. The composition was largely determined by measuring transects on detailed soil survey maps. The number of transects used was proportional to the relative size, number, and complexity of the delineations. The combined data on the length of the map units crossed by the transects were used to determine the percentages of the different soil and nonsoil areas in each map unit.

Specific National Cooperative Soil Survey Standards and procedures were used in the classification of soils, design and name of map units. These standards are outlined in

U.S. Department of Agriculture. 2nd Ed., 1999. Soil Taxonomy: A basic system of soil classification for making and interpreting soil surveys. Nat. Res. Conserv. Serv., U.S. Dep. Agric. Handb. 436.; U.S. Department of Agriculture. 9th Ed., 2003. Keys to Soil Taxonomy. Soil Surv. staff, Nat. Res. Conserv. Serv.; U.S. Department of Agriculture. Current Issue. National Soil Survey Handbook, title 430-VI. Soil Surv. Staff, Nat. Res. Conserv. Serv.; and U.S. Department of Agriculture. 1993. Soil Survey Manual. Soil Surv. Staff, U.S. Dep. Agric. Handbook 18. Adherence to National Cooperative Soil Survey standards and procedures is based on peer review, quality control, and quality assurance. Quality control is outlined in documents that reside with the Natural Resources Conservation Service state soil scientist.


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Data quality report - Quantitative attribute accuracy

Measure description

Accuracy is tested by manual comparison of the source with hard copy plots and/or symbolized display of the map data on an interactive computer graphic system.

Selected attributes that cannot be visually verified on plots or on screen are interactively queried and verified on screen. In addition, the attributes are tested against a master set of valid attributes. All attribute data conform to the attribute codes in the signed classification and correlation document and amendments and are current as of the date of digitizing.


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Data quality report - Absolute external positional accuracy

DIMENSION horizontal


Measure description

The accuracy of these digital data is based upon their compilation to base maps that meet National Map Accuracy Standards. The difference in positional accuracy between the map unit boundaries in the field and their digitized map locations is unknown. The locational acuracy of soil delineations on the ground varies with the transition between map units. For example, in areas where changes in soils, climate, topography, and geology occur subtly across a portion of a state, the transition between soil map unit boundaries will be gradual. Where these features change abruptly, such as from an area of foothills to a lake plain, the transition will be very narrow. Soil delineation boundaries were digitized within 0.01 inches of their locations on the digitizing source. The digital map elements are edge matched between data sets. The data along each state boundary are matched against the data for the adjacent state. Edge locations generally do not deviate from centerline to centerline by more than 0.01 inch.


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Process step

WHEN THE PROCESS OCCURRED 2005-07-18

Description

The tabular data were extracted from the Soil Data Mart without change. The spatial data was exported to an ESRI shapefile.


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Source citation

ALTERNATE TITLES NASIS


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WHEN THE PROCESS OCCURRED 2016-01-01

Description

The Alaska soils staff updated the STATSGO mapping for the state. A limited number of field visits during the summers of 2009 and 2010 provided additional verification of the preliminary STATSGO map. This included over 150 pedon and plant community

descriptions completed as a cooperative effort with USDI-US Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Land Management. Several National Wildlife Refuges were visited including Alaska Maritime (Attu Island), Yukon Delta, Kanuti, Tetlin, and Togiak. In addition the Bureau of Land Management supported verification work on the North Slope between Galbraith Lake and the Colville River Delta. In addition, 57 soil investigations of communities throughout Alaska are used to refine and verify the map. The state-wide Alaska MLRA (2002) map provided a starting point for this STATSGO update. STATSGO map units are unique to a MLRA. The map unit composition is derived through two different processes. In areas of detailed soil survey information (SSURGO) map units are developed through the aggregation of detailed soil maps into more general delineations with composition estimates based on a weighted average of detailed map unit components. Since detailed soil information is available for only about 15 percent of Alaska, a remote sensing approach using GIS tools was necessary to develop map units and components for remaining areas. The remote sensing process used to derive a majority of the STATSGO map for Alaska is described in the following paragraphs and outline. Regardless of the availability of detailed SSURGO data, a similar landform and life zone approach to map unit development is used in order to achieve a uniform map product throughout the State. The soil map unit lines and symbols are produced through a digitized on-screen process at a scale of approximately 1:250,000 in order to minimize the angularity of vertices and improve line placement and accuracy at landform boundaries. The final map is published at a nominal scale of 1:500,000. The on-screen digitizing process is best described as a visual digitizing process using a variety of digital layers as tools to assist in the manual on-screen process.


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Source citation

ALTERNATE TITLES USGS2, USGS3, NRCS1, NRCS2, NRCS3


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WHEN THE PROCESS OCCURRED 2006-06-28

Description

The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or delegate, upon completion of data quality verification, determined that the tabular data should be released for official use. A selected set of map units and components in the soil survey legend was copied to a staging database.


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ALTERNATE TITLES NASIS


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WHEN THE PROCESS OCCURRED 2005-01-01

Description

The National Soil Information System data base was developed by Natural Resources Conservation Service soil scientists according to national standards.


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ALTERNATE TITLES SCS4


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WHEN THE PROCESS OCCURRED 2005-07-15

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The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or delegate, upon completion of data quality verification, determined that the tabular data should be released for official use. A selected set of map units and components in the soil survey legend was copied to a staging database.


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ALTERNATE TITLES NASIS


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WHEN THE PROCESS OCCURRED 2000-01-01

Description

State coverages were merged into a seamless national coverage. This reduced tabular data redundancy and polygon number. A detailed and complete edit was performed on all digital data.


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ALTERNATE TITLES SCS4


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WHEN THE PROCESS OCCURRED 1994-01-01

Description

Soil map unit lines and symbols were drafted in red pencil on a mylar overlay that was punch registered to fit the mylar USGS 1:250,000-scale topographic quadrangle. A detailed and complete edit was performed on all overlays before digitizing. The soil delineation overlays were raster scanned at a scanning resolution of at least 0.01 inches and converted to a vector format or were manually digitized on a digitizing tablet with a resolution of at least 0.001 inches. Four control points corresponding to

the four corners of the quadrangles were used for registration during data collection. The control points were either explicitly entered or developed by the software. The data sets were edge matched and merged into statewide coverages. A detailed and complete edit was performed on all digital data.


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ALTERNATE TITLES USGS1, SCS3


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WHEN THE PROCESS OCCURRED 1994-01-01

Description

Map unit composition was determined by transecting or sampling areas on the more detailed soil maps and expanding the data statistically to characterize the whole map unit.


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ALTERNATE TITLES SCS1


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WHEN THE PROCESS OCCURRED 2005-07-15

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The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or delegate verified that the labels on the digitized soil map units link to map units in the tabular database, and certified the joined data sets for release to the Soil Data Warehouse. A system assigned version number and date stamp were added and the data were copied to the data warehouse. The tabular data for the map units and components were extracted from the data warehouse and reformatted into the soil data delivery data model, then stored in the Soil Data Mart. The spatial data were copied to the Soil Data Mart without change.


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ALTERNATE TITLES NASIS


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WHEN THE PROCESS OCCURRED 2006-06-29

Description

The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or delegate verified that the labels on the digitized soil map units link to map units in the tabular database, and certified the joined data sets for release to the Soil Data Warehouse. A system assigned version number and date stamp were added and the data were copied to the data warehouse. The tabular data for the map units and components were extracted from the data warehouse and reformatted into the soil data delivery data model, then stored in the Soil Data Mart. The spatial data were copied to the Soil Data Mart without change.


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ALTERNATE TITLES NASIS


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Description

source for elevation correction


SOURCE MEDIUM NAME online link

Resolution of the source data

SCALE DENOMINATOR 24000


Source citation

TITLE 60 meter Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) National Elevation Dataset

ALTERNATE TITLES NRCS1

PUBLICATION DATE 2004-01-01


PRESENTATION FORMATS hardcopy model

FGDC GEOSPATIAL PRESENTATION FORMAT model


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ORGANIZATION'S NAME U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service National Cartography and Geospatial Center

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DELIVERY POINT Fort Worth, Texas


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ORGANIZATION'S NAME U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service

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publication date


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DATE AND TIME 2004-01-01


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Description

attribute (tabular) information


Source citation

TITLE National Soil Information System (NASIS) data base

ALTERNATE TITLES NASIS

PUBLICATION DATE 2005-01-01


PRESENTATION FORMATS digital document

FGDC GEOSPATIAL PRESENTATION FORMAT tabular digital data


Responsible party

ORGANIZATION'S NAME U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service

CONTACT'S ROLE originator


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ORGANIZATION'S NAME U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service

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DELIVERY POINT Fort Collins, Colorado


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Extent of the source data

Description

publication date


Temporal extent

BEGINNING DATE 2005-01-01

ENDING DATE 2005-01-01


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Source data

Description

source material of soil map unit delineations and soil symbols


SOURCE MEDIUM NAME CD-ROM

Resolution of the source data

SCALE DENOMINATOR 250000

Source citation

TITLE State Soil Geographic (STATSGO) data base

ALTERNATE TITLES SCS5

PUBLICATION DATE 1994-01-01


FGDC GEOSPATIAL PRESENTATION FORMAT digital data


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ORGANIZATION'S NAME U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service

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Extent of the source data

Description

2006


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DATE AND TIME 1994-01-01


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Source data

Description

certified SSURGO data used for digital revision


SOURCE MEDIUM NAME online link

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TITLE Soil Survey Geographic (SSURGO) database for Alaska

ALTERNATE TITLES NRCS3

PUBLICATION DATE 2015-01-01


PRESENTATION FORMATS hardcopy map

FGDC GEOSPATIAL PRESENTATION FORMAT map


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ORGANIZATION'S NAME U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service

CONTACT'S ROLE originator


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ORGANIZATION'S NAME U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service

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DELIVERY POINT Fort Worth, Texas


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publication date


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DATE AND TIME 2015-01-01


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Description

source for digital revision


SOURCE MEDIUM NAME online link

Resolution of the source data

SCALE DENOMINATOR 500000


Source citation

TITLE Major Land Resource Area Map (MLRA) for Alaska

ALTERNATE TITLES NRCS2

PUBLICATION DATE 2002-01-01


PRESENTATION FORMATS hardcopy model

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ORGANIZATION'S NAME U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service National Cartography and Geospatial Center

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DELIVERY POINT Fort Worth, Texas


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ORGANIZATION'S NAME U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service

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publication date


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DATE AND TIME 2004-01-01


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Description

Source of digital revision


Resolution of the source data

SCALE DENOMINATOR 500000


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TITLE Landfire - EVT ALTERNATE TITLES USGS3 PUBLICATION DATE 2007-01-01


FGDC GEOSPATIAL PRESENTATION FORMAT remote sensing image


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ORGANIZATION'S NAME U.S. Geological Survey

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ORGANIZATION'S NAME U.S. Geological Survey

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Address

DELIVERY POINT Menlo Park, California


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publication date


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DATE AND TIME 2007-01-01


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Description

Source of digital revision


Resolution of the source data

SCALE DENOMINATOR 500000


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TITLE Landsat Mosaic - Alaska ALTERNATE TITLES USGS2 PUBLICATION DATE 2000-01-01


FGDC GEOSPATIAL PRESENTATION FORMAT remote sensing image


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ORGANIZATION'S NAME U.S. Geological Survey

CONTACT'S ROLE originator


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ORGANIZATION'S NAME U.S. Geological Survey

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DELIVERY POINT Menlo Park, California


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publication date


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DATE AND TIME 2000-01-01


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Source data

Description

source material of soil map unit delineations and soil symbols

SOURCE MEDIUM NAME CD-ROM

Resolution of the source data

SCALE DENOMINATOR 250000


Source citation

TITLE State Soil Geographic (STATSGO) data base

ALTERNATE TITLES SCS4

PUBLICATION DATE 1994-01-01


FGDC GEOSPATIAL PRESENTATION FORMAT digital data


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ORGANIZATION'S NAME U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service

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Description

1994


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DATE AND TIME 1994-01-01


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Description

digitizing source


SOURCE MEDIUM NAME hardcopy—diazo on paper

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TITLE multiple compiled mylar overlays of map unit delineations, unpublished

ALTERNATE TITLES SCS3

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INDETERMINATE DATE unknown


FGDC GEOSPATIAL PRESENTATION FORMAT annotated overlay


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ORGANIZATION'S NAME U.S Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service

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unknown


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Date and time

INDETERMINATE DATE unknown


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Source data

Description

base materials for compilation of map unit delineation linework


SOURCE MEDIUM NAME hardcopy—diazo on paper

Resolution of the source data

SCALE DENOMINATOR 250000


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TITLE multiple maps ALTERNATE TITLES USGS1 PUBLICATION DATE

INDETERMINATE DATE unknown


PRESENTATION FORMATS hardcopy map

FGDC GEOSPATIAL PRESENTATION FORMAT map


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ORGANIZATION'S NAME U.S. Geological Survey

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Address

DELIVERY POINT Reston, Virginia


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ORGANIZATION'S NAME U.S. Geological Survey

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publication date


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Date and time

INDETERMINATE DATE unknown

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Source data

Description

reference information for development of map unit delineations and transect data for naming map units where detailed surveys did not exist


SOURCE MEDIUM NAME hardcopy—printing on paper

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TITLE multiple reconnaissance, county, and State general soil maps

ALTERNATE TITLES SCS2

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INDETERMINATE DATE unknown


PRESENTATION FORMATS hardcopy map

FGDC GEOSPATIAL PRESENTATION FORMAT map


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ORGANIZATION'S NAME U.S Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service

CONTACT'S ROLE originator


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ORGANIZATION'S NAME U.S. Government Printing Office

CONTACT'S ROLE publisher


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Address

DELIVERY POINT Washington, D.C.


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publication date


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Date and time

INDETERMINATE DATE unknown


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Source data

Description

base information for development of map unit delineations and transect data for naming map units


SOURCE MEDIUM NAME hardcopy—printing on paper

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TITLE multiple soil survey publications

ALTERNATE TITLES SCS1

Publication date

INDETERMINATE DATE unknown


PRESENTATION FORMATS hardcopy map

FGDC GEOSPATIAL PRESENTATION FORMAT map


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ORGANIZATION'S NAME U.S Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service

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ORGANIZATION'S NAME U.S. Government Printing Office

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DELIVERY POINT Washington, D.C.


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publication date


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Date and time

INDETERMINATE DATE unknown


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Distributor

Contact information

ORGANIZATION'S NAME U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, National Cartography and Geospatial Center

CONTACT'S ROLE distributor


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Phone

VOICE (800) 672-5559

TDD/TTY (202) 720-2600

FAX (817) 509-3469


Address

TYPE both

DELIVERY POINT 501 West Felix Street, Building 23

DELIVERY POINT P.O. Box 6567

CITY Fort Worth ADMINISTRATIVE AREA Texas POSTAL CODE 76115


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Available format

NAME ESRI shapefile

FORMAT INFORMATION CONTENT spatial


Ordering process

TERMS AND FEES There is currently no direct charge for requesting data or for retrieving via FTP.

Turnaround time

Typically within four hours


Instructions

Visit the above mentioned Internet Web Site, select state or territory or national extent. Spatial data are available in ESRI shapefile format. The National Soil Information System attribute soil data are available in variable length, pipe delimited, ASCII file format.


Transfer options

TRANSFER SIZE 100


Online source

LOCATION URL:http://DataGateway.nrcs.usda.gov/

DESCRIPTION Select desired survey area at above Internet Web site. An email address is required for receipt of instructions on retrieval via anonymous FTP. Anticipate a delay between submission of request at Web site and receipt of email message.


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Online source

DESCRIPTION Digital General Soil Map of U.S.


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Overview Description

Entity and Attribute Overview

Map Unit Delineations are closed polygons that are geographic mixtures of groups of soils or soils and nonsoil areas. The map unit key uniquely identifies each closed map unit delineation. Each map unit key is linked to a map unit symbol and a map unit name. The map unit key is also the key for linking information in the National Soil Information System tables. Map Unit Delineations are described by the National Soil Information System data base. This attribute data base gives the proportionate extent of the component soils and the properties for each soil. The data base contains both estimated and measured data on the physical and chemical soil properties. The National Soil Information System data base contains static metadata. It documents the data structure and includes such information as what tables, columns, indexes, and relationships are defined as well as a variety of attributes of each of these data base objects. Attributes include table and column descriptions and detailed domain information. The National Soil Information System data base also contains distribution metadata. It records the criteria used in the set of distributed data.


Entity and Attribute Detail Citation

U.S. Department of Agriculture. 2nd Ed., 1999. Soil Taxonomy: A basic system of soil classification for making and interpreting soil surveys. Nat. Res. Conserv. Serv., U.S. Dep. Agric. Handb. 436. U.S. Department of Agriculture. 9th Ed., 2003. Keys to Soil Taxonomy. Soil Surv. Staff, Nat. Res. Conserv. Serv. U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Current Issue. National Soil Survey Handbook, title 430-VI. Soil Surv. Staff, Nat. Res. Conserv. Serv. U.S. Department of Agriculture. 1993. Soil Survey Manual. Soil Surv. Staff, U.S. Dep. Agric. Handbook 18. U.S. Department of Agriculture. 1994. State Soil Geographic (STATSGO) Data Base: Data use information. Soil Conserv. Serv.


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Aggregate Information

ASSOCIATION TYPE cross reference


Aggregate resource name

TITLE State Soil Survey Geographic (STATSGO) data base

PUBLICATION DATE 1994-01-01


Responsible party

ORGANIZATION'S NAME U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service

CONTACT'S ROLE originator


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Metadata Details


METADATA LANGUAGE English (UNITED STATES)

METADATA CHARACTER SET utf8 - 8 bit UCS Transfer Format


SCOPE OF THE DATA DESCRIBED BY THE METADATA dataset

SCOPE NAME * dataset


* LAST UPDATE 2018-11-15


ArcGIS metadata properties

METADATA FORMAT ArcGIS 1.0

METADATA STYLE FGDC CSDGM Metadata


CREATED IN ARCGIS FOR THE ITEM 2018-11-15 13:49:32

LAST MODIFIED IN ARCGIS FOR THE ITEM 2018-11-15 13:52:10


Automatic updates

HAVE BEEN PERFORMED Yes

LAST UPDATE 2018-11-15 13:52:10


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Metadata Contacts


Metadata contact

ORGANIZATION'S NAME U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service

CONTACT'S POSITION State Soil Scientist

CONTACT'S ROLE point of contact


Contact information

Phone

VOICE 307-233-6774

TDD/TTY 800-877-8339

FAX 307-233-6753


Address

TYPE postal

DELIVERY POINT PO Box 33124

DELIVERY POINT 100 East B St Room 3124

CITY Casper ADMINISTRATIVE AREA WY POSTAL CODE 82602

E-MAIL ADDRESS james.bauchert@wy.usda.gov


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Detailed Description Entity Type

ENTITY TYPE LABEL MS_STATSGO2_2016

Entity Type Definition

A closed polygon that consists of soils and nonsoil areas that occur in a repeatable pattern on the landscape and that can be cartographically shown at the scale mapped.

ENTITY TYPE DEFINITION SOURCE NRCS National Cooperative Soil Survey


Attribute

ATTRIBUTE LABEL FID

Attribute Definition

Internal feature number.

ATTRIBUTE DEFINITION SOURCE Esri

Attribute Domain Values Unrepresentable Domain

Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.

Attribute

ATTRIBUTE LABEL Shape

Attribute Definition

Feature geometry.

ATTRIBUTE DEFINITION SOURCE Esri

Attribute Domain Values Unrepresentable Domain

Coordinates defining the features.


Attribute

ATTRIBUTE LABEL AREASYMBOL

Attribute Definition

A symbol that uniquely identifies a single occurrence of a particular type of area (e.g. Lancaster Co., Nebraska is NE109).

ATTRIBUTE DEFINITION SOURCE NASIS

Attribute Domain Values Codeset Domain

CODESET NAME None

CODESET SOURCE National Information Technology Center, NRCS, 2150 Centre Ave., Bldg. A, Fort Collins, CO 80526


Attribute

ATTRIBUTE LABEL SPATIALVER


ATTRIBUTE ATTRIBUTE LABEL MUKEY ATTRIBUTE DEFINITION

A non-connotative string of characters used to uniquely identify a record in the Mapunit table.

ATTRIBUTE DEFINITION SOURCE NASIS

Attribute Domain Values Unrepresentable Domain

No predefined set of mukeys.


ATTRIBUTE ATTRIBUTE LABEL MUSYM ATTRIBUTE DEFINITION

The symbol used to uniquely identify the soil map unit in the soil survey.

ATTRIBUTE DEFINITION SOURCE NASIS

Attribute Domain Values Codeset Domain

CODESET NAME None

CODESET SOURCE National Information Technology Center, NRCS, 2150 Centre Ave., Bldg. A, Fort Collins, CO 80526


ATTRIBUTE ATTRIBUTE LABEL musym_1


ATTRIBUTE ATTRIBUTE LABEL muname


Attribute

ATTRIBUTE LABEL mustatus


Attribute

ATTRIBUTE LABEL slopegradd


Attribute

ATTRIBUTE LABEL slopegradw


Attribute

ATTRIBUTE LABEL brockdepmi


Attribute

ATTRIBUTE LABEL wtdepannmi


Attribute

ATTRIBUTE LABEL wtdepaprju


Attribute

ATTRIBUTE LABEL flodfreqdc


Attribute

ATTRIBUTE LABEL flodfreqma


Attribute

ATTRIBUTE LABEL pondfreqpr



ATTRIBUTE LABEL aws025wta

Attribute



ATTRIBUTE LABEL aws050wta

Attribute



ATTRIBUTE LABEL aws0100wta

Attribute



ATTRIBUTE LABEL aws0150wta

Attribute



ATTRIBUTE LABEL drclassdcd

Attribute



ATTRIBUTE LABEL drclasswet

Attribute



ATTRIBUTE LABEL hydgrpdcd

Attribute



ATTRIBUTE LABEL iccdcd

Attribute



ATTRIBUTE LABEL iccdcdpct

Attribute



ATTRIBUTE LABEL niccdcd

Attribute



ATTRIBUTE LABEL niccdcdpct

Attribute



ATTRIBUTE LABEL engdwobdcd

Attribute



ATTRIBUTE LABEL engdwbdcd

Attribute


ATTRIBUTE LABEL engdwbll

Attribute



ATTRIBUTE LABEL engdwbml

Attribute



ATTRIBUTE LABEL engstafdcd

Attribute



ATTRIBUTE LABEL engstafll

Attribute



ATTRIBUTE LABEL engstafml

Attribute



ATTRIBUTE LABEL engsldcd

Attribute



ATTRIBUTE LABEL engsldcp

Attribute



ATTRIBUTE LABEL englrsdcd

Attribute



ATTRIBUTE LABEL engcmssdcd

Attribute



ATTRIBUTE LABEL engcmssmp

Attribute



ATTRIBUTE LABEL urbrecptdc

Attribute



ATTRIBUTE LABEL urbrecptwt

Attribute



ATTRIBUTE LABEL forpehrtdc

Attribute



ATTRIBUTE LABEL hydclprs

Attribute



ATTRIBUTE LABEL awmmfpwwta

Attribute



ATTRIBUTE LABEL mukey_1

Attribute


Overview Description

Entity and Attribute Overview

Map Unit Delineations are closed polygons that are geographic mixtures of groups of soils or soils and nonsoil areas. The map unit key uniquely identifies each closed map unit delineation. Each map unit key is linked to a map unit symbol and a map unit name. The map unit key is also the key for linking information in the National Soil Information System tables. Map Unit Delineations are described by the National Soil Information System data base. This attribute data base gives the proportionate extent of the component soils and the properties for each soil. The data base contains both

estimated and measured data on the physical and chemical soil properties. The National Soil Information System data base contains static metadata. It documents the data structure and includes such information as what tables, columns, indexes, and relationships are defined as well as a variety of attributes of each of these data base objects. Attributes include table and column descriptions and detailed domain information. The National Soil Information System data base also contains distribution metadata. It records the criteria used in the set of distributed data.

Entity and Attribute Detail Citation

U.S. Department of Agriculture. 2nd Ed., 1999. Soil Taxonomy: A basic system of soil classification for making and interpreting soil surveys. Nat. Res. Conserv. Serv., U.S. Dep. Agric. Handb. 436. U.S. Department of Agriculture. 9th Ed., 2003. Keys to Soil Taxonomy. Soil Surv. Staff, Nat. Res. Conserv. Serv. U.S. Department of Agriculture. Current Issue. National Soil Survey Handbook, title 430-VI. Soil Surv. Staff, Nat. Res. Conserv. Serv. U.S. Department of Agriculture. 1993. Soil Survey Manual. Soil Surv. Staff, U.S. Dep. Agric. Handbook 18. U.S. Department of Agriculture. 1994. State Soil Geographic (STATSGO) Data Base: Data use information. Soil Conserv. Serv.


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