Soil Data Access Help
We have attempted to make the Soil Data Access website easy for you to use.
The purpose of this page is to provide you with general information about this site and to help you resolve some
common issues that may be experienced whilst browsing.
If you still need a question answered after having read the information on this page, please see the
Contact Us page for information on how to contact us with your question.
On this page, you will find information on:
The Soil Data Access Website's Purpose
The USDA-NRCS Soil Data Access website allows you to:
- Request data for an ad hoc area of interest of any size.
- Obtain data in real-time.
- Request selected tabular attributes.
- Obtain tabular data where the organization of that data doesn’t have to mirror that of the underlying source database.
- Obtain data bundled by request, rather than by survey area.
Soil Data Access Website and Web Service Availability
In order to provide you with the most current data possible, soil survey data is updated each night from approximately
12:00 AM to 4:00 AM Mountain time. The Soil Data Access website and web services will be unavailable during this time
while any updates are being processed.
Supported Browsers
In order to view this site, we suggest you use one of the following browsers:
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Please note that this site may or may not work with browsers other than those listed above.
JavaScript
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Cookies
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This site uses only temporary session cookies to aid in the navigation process throughout this site.
Note that these cookies are set to automatically expire after twenty minutes of not being used. If this
should happen while you are using our site, you might find that you are redirected back to the home page
once you resume using this website.
Pop-up Blockers
This website uses pop-ups to present certain types of information, such as query results. In order to
view this information, any pop-up blocker that you may have should be disabled for this site or
temporarily turned off while browsing this site.
Screen Size
Please note that this site is best viewed with a screen resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels or higher.
Downloads
All files downloaded from this site are placed into what is referred to as a "zip" file. Zip files are
just archives used for distributing and storing files. Zip files may contain one or more files, and
these files are usually compressed to save space. Zip files make it easy to group files and make
transporting these files faster. Two benefits of using archives for electronic file distribution are that
only one file transfer operation ("download") is required to obtain all related files, and file transfer
time is minimized because the files in an archive are compressed.
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If you are currently unable to open files in ZIP format, you can download a full trial version of
WinZip® by clicking the logo to the left.
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Help Documents
All help documents are provided in PDF format by default.
Documents in this format will be displayed in a new browser window using whatever PDF
viewer your browser is configured for (such as Adobe® Reader® software).
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Note that the newest version of the Adobe® Reader® software may or may not work if you
are using an older browser version. In this case, you can download an earlier version of the
Adobe® Reader® software instead from the same page that you will be visiting when you
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Feedback / Contact us
We appreciate your feedback. If you would like to contact us for any reason, please see the
Soil Data Access Contact Us page for details on how to do so.
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