USDA NRCS Web Soil Survey
Soil Survey Geographic Database (SSURGO) with detailed soil properties and interpretations
websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov
At a glance
- Region
- United States
- Coverage
- Continental United States
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Government
- Last updated
- 2024
What's inside
- Soil Properties
- Soil Classification
- Productivity Values
- GIS Data
What you can do with it
Typical work that data of this type supports.
- 01
Baselines
Set a baseline for a project, report or proposal.
- 02
Combine sources
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- 03
Teaching
Use it in classes and student projects.
Where AI adds value
Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.
- 01
Ask in plain language
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- 02
Automatic QC
Find errors and gaps automatically.
- 03
Find related data
Let AI suggest datasets that fill the gaps.
Machine access and documentation
Open API
USDA Soil Data Access REST https://sdmdataaccess.nrcs.usda.gov
Licence: US federal public domain
Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.
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