Soils
SSURGO and gSSURGO
Soil Survey Geographic Database. Detailed county-level soil surveys for the United States.
The most detailed soil information for the United States, with map units, components and horizon properties such as hydrologic soil group, saturated hydraulic conductivity and available water capacity.
- Source
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Resolution
- 1:12,000 to 1:63,360 (vector), 10 m (gridded)
- Data type
- Polygons and raster
- Time span
- Updated annually
- Temporal
- Annual refresh
- Access type
- API (external) · Soil Data Access web service, no key
- Formats
- File geodatabase, Shapefile, text tables
- Coverage
- United States and territories (-180, 13, -64, 72)
- Licence
- Public domain (U.S. Government work)
- Provider page
- www.nrcs.usda.gov/resources/data-and-reports/soil-survey-ge…
Access
linkWeb Soil Survey (draw an area of interest)
linkSoil Data Access (SQL web service)
curl "https://hydrological.org/api/v1/datasets/ssurgo/links?bbox=-123,41.5,-121,43.5" \
-H "Accept: application/json"import requests
r = requests.get("https://hydrological.org/api/v1/datasets/ssurgo/links",
params={"bbox": "-123,41.5,-121,43.5"})
for group in r.json()["groups"]:
for link in group["links"]:
print(link["url"])const res = await fetch("https://hydrological.org/api/v1/datasets/ssurgo/links?bbox=-123,41.5,-121,43.5");
const { groups } = await res.json();
for (const g of groups) g.links.forEach(l => console.log(l.url));Also available as JSON: links · manifest · dataset record
