Web Soil Survey (WSS) provides soil data and information produced by the National Cooperative Soil Survey. It is operated by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and provides access to the largest natural resource information system in the world. NRCS has soil maps and data available online for more than 95 percent of the nation’s counties and anticipates having 100 percent ...

History of Wisconsin Soil Survey The year 2006 marked the completion of the initial field mapping for the National Cooperative Soil Survey in Wisconsin. This publication recognizes the agencies and individuals who have invested time, funding, and manpower in the initial field mapping of the state over the last 100 years or so.

As world population and food production demands rise, keeping our soil healthy and productive is of paramount importance. These resources are designed to help you understand the basics and benefits of soil health and learn about Soil Health Management Systems …

This is the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources GIS Open Data Portal. It is a free resource for locating, viewing, and downloading data developed and/or maintained by the Wisconsin DNR. First try some of our interactive maps!

You can browse the mapping applications below for more specific information displayed in a map format. Many of these maps are interactive, meaning that users can zoom in and out, add data layers, print and export maps and perform other actions to get information and make maps about specific areas and features of interest to them.

For this map, Wisconsin's 520 soil series were grouped into fifteen general regions. On the landscape, many of these regions appear distinctly different from each other because differences in land form and use are often related to the characteristics of the soils.

This book is divided into three parts: Part 1 looks at the factors of soil formation, the properties of Wisconsin soils, and a classification of soil. Part 2 is a study of the characteristics of...

These maps are available in both printed versions and also in electronic format. Printed versions of these maps were previously available on a county basis in the form of Soil Survey reports for all 72 counties in Wisconsin.

Wisconsin Soil survey data, soil maps, and soil productivity ratings for any field, sourced from the NRCS.

This interactive map allows you to explore USDA-NCSS soil survey data for locations throughout most of the U.S. It is compatible with smartphones, tablets, and desktop computers. Zoom into an area of interest and discover the soil composition.