Obtain an Illinois Soil Survey (pdf version only) for a county that you are interested in. This can be some family property, a state park, your home, a new subdivision you pass to and from work/school each day… any place you are interested in in Illinois.

Obtain an Illinois Soil Survey (pdf version only) for a county that you are interested in. This can
be some family property, a state park, your home, a new subdivision you pass to and from
work/school each day… any place you are interested in in Illinois. Available counties are
located at: http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/soilsurve…
Follow the Illinois link and select a county. IF THERE ARE MULTIPLE LINKS
AVAILABLE FOR A COUNTY, SELECT THE MOST RECENT YEAR PDF that is
avaiable. Download the Soil Survey manuscript pdf for the area you are interested in. WEB
SOIL SURVEY (WSS) will be used to obtain a soil map of the site you are interested in.
The pdf soil survey used to have map sheets linked at the end but the USDA has slowly been
removing them from the pdf soil surveys and having people use WSS instead as it can be
updated more easily. You should still use the county soil survey pdf to do this assignment.
Later in the semester we will use Web Soil Survey data. Don’t use the data from WSS for
this assignment. Obtaining a map is ok though