Soils
Illinois Soils
"... the soil survey will
never be completed because I cannot conceive of the time when knowledge of
soils will be complete. Our expectation is that our successors will build on
what has been done, as we are building on the work of our predecessors."
[ A portion of a letter by R.S. Smith, the
Director of the Illinois Soil Survey, dated September 27, 1928, in response
to the Comptroller of the University of Illinois when asked to make an
estimate of the cost of completing the state soil survey.]
SoilView
Information on the interactive Soil Survey on a CD-ROM. Includes manuscript,
tables, soils, imagery, digital topographic quadrangles and more, with a GIS
engine, to provide real functionality to digital soil data. [SoilView]
Digital Soil Data for Illinois
Soil Survey
SSURGO
Known by the acronym SSURGO this is soil polygon and special feature
data in DLG, Arc export and Arc coverage format, with associated tabular
data. [SSURGO]
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Adobe
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Digital Soil Survey
Status Map [PDF]
Color compilation and scanning for SSURGO
How To
Get a
Soil Survey
Report:
The status map document requires
Adobe
Acrobat Reader 5.0 or higher (FREE software).
Status Map
[PDF]
Check the status map for the availability of the county of interest or
look up the County in the
Soil Survey List
and call the listed phone number to request a copy of the report.
High Intensity Soil Surveys
DRAFT Standard and specifications for high intensity soil surveys
Next Generation
The Next
Generation of Soil Survey in Illinois (circa 1995)
History of Soil Survey in Illinois, Soil Survey Program,
Soils of Illinois and more interesting information relating to soil survey
program
Soils of Illinois
Illinois Soil Regions
Soil Survey of the Future
Developing a Soil Survey of the Future
Other
Soil Resources
Digital Soils Fact
Sheet
Laboratory data for
Illinois
Describe/Download STATSGO
Soil Survey Photography
Official Series
Descriptions
Tabular Soils Data
Hydric Soils List
Soil
Recompilation Study
Pen Computing Project
Organization
Soil
Science Society of America
For More Soils Information Contact:
Bob McLeese
State Soil Scientist
(217) 353-6643
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