SOIL INFORMATION ONLINE

105 years of Indiana soil survey work was completed when the digital soils data for Warren County, Indiana was posted to the Soil Data Warehouse, on the internet. This brings digital soils coverage for Indiana to 100%. The 1902, Posey County, Indiana soil survey report was the first published soil survey in Indiana.

In addition to the traditional use by farmers, ranchers and conservation planners, soil survey information now has many other users. Homeowners, realtors, county officials, universities, students, consultants, among others, are finding the information useful.

For those with access to a computer, digital soils information for all

92 Indiana counties is now available, anytime, anywhere, through the Soil Data Mart http://soildatamart.nrcs.usda.gov/ and the Web Soil Survey http://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/. For those without a computer, Soil and Water Conservation District offices can provide the same information.

In the past, soils information was available in soil survey reports covering an entire county or in some cases multiple counties. Now, in addition to full county coverage, an "area of interest" may be identified and soils information for only the selected area is included in the map and report that is created on demand.

The soils of Warren County, Indiana were mentioned in the 1873, 5th Annual Report, of the Indiana Department of Geology and Natural Resources. An early soil survey report with a plane table soil map of the county was published in 1914. A modern soil survey was released in 1990, under Indiana's Accelerated Soil Survey Program. The 1990 report soil map information was then digitized and posted to the Soil Data Warehouse, on the internet.

For more information on Indiana Soils visit http://www.in.nrcs.usda.gov/mlra11/soils.html.

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Last Updated:06/19/08