Soil Information
Soil is one of our most valuable, and taken for granted, natural resources there is. Civilizations have come and gone largely based on the degree of misuse of their natural resources, primarily soil. It’s up to you to use it wisely.
Conserve soil so that it can be used again and again by us and by those that inherit it in the condition that we leave it.
The Wayne SWCD no longer has paper copies of the Wayne County Soil Survey for general distribution.
If you have Google Earth you can add a KMZ file developed by the California Soil Resource Lab that overlays the soil data on top of the aerial photographs. Once downloaded, you can click on a soil symbol to see a soil profile.
When you go to the Web Soil Survey site click the green Start WSS button. You can search by address, state/county, soil survey area, latitude/longitude, section, township, and range. Web Soil Survey allows you to see land with an aerial photo base and roads, towns, and streams as layers. You can turn map features on and off depending on your preference. Draw an area of interest (AOI) shape over where you want soils information, click on the soil map tab, then the soil info appears to the left. You can look more deeply into each soil listed as well as print out any information that you want to keep. It’s pretty amazing!
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