The Natural Resources Conservation Service (
NRCS
) - National Cartography and Geospatial Center (
NCGC
) previously archived and distributed the Soil Survey
Geographic (SSURGO) Database. Only file downloads were available
from this site. This limited the amount of soil survey information
that could be accessed. The
NRCS
-
NCGC
also supplied
SSURGO
data to the United States Department of
Agriculture - Service Center Agencies (Farm Service Agency, Natural
Resources Conservation Service, and Rural Development)
Geospatial Data Gateway
. While the Gateway provides file downloads, a customer
can also order
SSURGO
data on CD-ROM or DVD. The
NRCS
Soil Survey Division recognized that increased
functionality for access of soil survey information was needed. In
December 2003, the
Soil Data Mart
web application came online. The
SSURGO
data were migrated to the
Soil Data Mart
in 2004.
The Soil Data
Mart provides a mechanism to access our official data. It
does not physically store the pre-packaged datasets, but instead
generates them in real-time as requests are made by a customer. The
Soil Data Mart will only provide access to the current version of
data for a soil survey area. The home page of the Soil Data
Mart provides a list of additional functionalities other
than data delivery. This list will be updated when new
functionalities are added.
Currently,
the Soil Data
Mart only has file download capability for data delivery.
If a CD-ROM or DVD is needed, access the Geospatial Data
Gateway. The cost is $50 for a single CD-ROM or $100 for a
single DVD disk which may contain one or more soil survey areas,
depending on file size.
