Online Soils Resources
Natural Resources Conservation Service
(NRCS)— Web Soil Survey
http://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/app/
Click on “Start WSS” to begin
Other sites:
Provides free and convenient access to digital mapping for Centre County. A wide variety of local mapping information is available through CentreGIS-Public including soils, streets, streams, trails, parcels and aerial photography.
(also found on the above NRCS/NCSS page)
Hydric Soils in
List of Centre County Hydric soils: Hydric Soils (requires Adobe Acrobat to view).
Source: http://soils.usda.gov/use/hydric/lists/state.html
Prime Farmland Soils Of Centre
County
Same list; (requires Adobe Acrobat to view).
Prime Farmland Soils and Soils of Statewide Importance in Centre County, PA