Web Soil Survey
FreePlanning · Free, from USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
Free soil and parcel mapping tool for any parcel: septic suitability, building limitations and vegetation.
The way it works is that you draw an area of interest on the map and everything then reports against that shape, so you get the soils under your own boundary rather than a county average. Behind it is the full soil survey report rather than a summary, kept current, and it is meant for land use and management decisions, which is the question you are asking when you wonder whether a septic system or a foundation will work where you want it. You can take the spatial and tabular data away for use in mapping software. NRCS publishes a short four step guide, a guide to the maps, reports and tables it can produce, and a separate note on drawing your area of interest on a phone, which is the one to have with you when you are standing on the ground. Where this comes from
Listed on their own website or an official directory. We have not called it.
Where it applies
Everywhere in the United States.
The states with county pages in this directory:
Also from USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
- Conservation Stewardship ProgramCost share
- Emergency Watershed ProtectionFreeWater
- Environmental Quality Incentives ProgramCost share
