Delaware SSURGO soils data

Delaware SSURGO Soils Data

Over the past few years, the Natural Resource Conservation Service has completed its soil remappings of Sussex County and Southern New Castle County. Under a memo of understanding with NRCS, Spatlab will be distributing these data as they become available in both vector and raster formats.

NEW--Delaware Inland Bays soils update (draft)
Zip files include a viewer extension developed by John Inkster

ArcView shapefiles plus tables, UTM projection (Winzipped, ~12.4MB)
ArcView shapefiles plus tables, DE State Plane (NAD83--meters) projection (Winzipped, ~13MB)

Southern New Castle County soils

snccsoil.tar.gz -- GRASS ASCII raster format, 30-meter resolution, with category file, UNIX tar'ed and gzipped (133K, use right mouse click)
snccsoil.ZIP -- ASCII raster format, 30-meter resolution, with ASCII comma-delimited category file, for import to Arc GRID or ArcView Spatial Analyst (147K)
Vector data, by Quad (Delaware portions within New Castle County only) -- Arc export (compressed E00) format, WinZipped, UTM NAD27 or Delaware State Plane NAD83 (meters) projections:

Cecilton       (140K)     UTM   SP83m
Clayton        (341K)     UTM   SP83m
Delaware City  (260K)     UTM   SP83m --(both have wrong attribute data--to be corrected!)
Elkton          (30K)     UTM   SP83m
Middletown     (868K)     UTM   SP83m
Millington      (64K)     UTM   SP83m
Smyrna         (351K)     UTM   SP83m
St. Georges    (342K)     UTM   SP83m
Taylors Bridge (501K)     UTM   SP83m

Documentation

Soil Codes (4K)
Profile Descriptors (22K)
Use and Explanation of Soil Interpretations (97K)
Tables (in revision)
Acreage Summary, by Soil Type