A Treat For You- Do You Have Anything to Do With Land? Great INFO on the Soils That Make Up Your Property- Do You Need Aerials of Your Property? NRCS WEB SOIL SURVEY - HERE IT IS!! (edit/delete)
The National Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) Interactive Soil Website is a valuable resource . If you have anything to do with land - own it, sell it, work in construction... this is a great resource for you.
I have soil books with maps in them for the
two counties that I work in but I've put those aside in favor of using the National Resource Conservation website.
From the NRCS soil site, I can zoom in on the aerials (By the way, those maps in themselves are worth visiting the site for. It's your tax dollars at work, so make use of the site.), and identify the area of interest (called the AOI on their website).
For this blog post, I chose to access an area that is in the George Caldwell Addition and the South Shore Acres Addition
to Lake Raymond Gary.
I will be writing about those areas this week so this will be additional information for those posts in addition to be being a tutorial on how easy the NRCS site is to use and the valuable info that is there.
I chose at this point which type of symbols that i want displayed on the map, the soil suvey unit symbols or national map unit symbols. Since we are doing a soil survey, I chose the Soil Survey Area map Unit Symbols.
When I click on the tab, Soil Map, the soils of that area are identified for me.
In this parcel in the Southwest corner of Lake Raymond Gary (George Caldwell addition and South Shore Acres Addition), two (2) soils are identified - Bosville fine sandy loam and Swink-Hollywood. The Bosville fine sandy loam is broken down further into two distinct areas, one has 1 to 3 percent slopes (the first one that the arrow is pointing to), and the other has 8 to 15 percent slopes, the Swink-Hollywood complex has 5 to 20 percent slopes.
You can open a soil map unit description report online which gives you an explanation and further description of the soils, or you can just click through to the final report which we will get to at the end of this post.
I can read all about these soils' suitability for certain uses by opening up the menu on the left side of my map.Suitability for:
- Building Site Deveopment
- Construction Materials
- Disaster Recovery Planning
- Land Classifications
- Land Management
- Military Operations
- Recreational Development
- Sanita ry Facilities
- Vegetative Productivity
- Waste management
- Water management
In fact opening up the different categories further, will give you a map that shows you how the soil's strengths
and weaknesses for those categories.
This map shows that where the soils
weaknesses
for concrete erosion.
I created many more photos of how to do this, but I think you probably "get the point". It's EASY. And if you like you can download really nifty report with all of this in it in an easy to read format (and easy to download (pdf) and give to your clients for property that they've bought if you're a real estate agent -- and if you're a property owner, it's soooo easy and soooo simple to access this info for your property. If you have difficulty, PLEASE email me if tech support doesn't come through for you on the site.
Want to see what the full downloadable report for this AOI looks like, South Shore Acres/George Caldwell Soil Survey.
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