Soil Survey Geographic (SSURGO) database for Atchison County, Kansas
Soil Survey Geographic (SSURGO) database for Atchison County, Kansas
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- Identification_Information:
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- Citation:
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- Citation_Information:
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- Originator:
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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources
Conservation Service
- Publication_Date: 20081208
- Title:
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Soil Survey Geographic (SSURGO) database for Atchison
County, Kansas
- Publication_Information:
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- Publication_Place: Fort Worth, Texas
- Publisher:
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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources
Conservation Service
- Other_Citation_Details: ks005
- Online_Linkage: URL:<http://SoilDataMart.nrcs.usda.gov/>
- Description:
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- Abstract:
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This data set is a digital soil survey and generally is the most
detailed level of soil geographic data developed by the National
Cooperative Soil Survey. The information was prepared by digitizing
maps, by compiling information onto a planimetric correct base
and digitizing, or by revising digitized maps using remotely
sensed and other information.
This data set consists of georeferenced digital map data and
computerized attribute data. The map data are in a soil survey area
extent format and include a detailed, field verified inventory
of soils and miscellaneous areas that normally occur in a repeatable
pattern on the landscape and that can be cartographically shown at
the scale mapped. A special soil features layer (point and line
features) is optional. This layer displays the location of features
too small to delineate at the mapping scale, but they are large
enough and contrasting enough to significantly influence use and
management. The soil map units are linked to attributes in the
National Soil Information System relational database, which gives
the proportionate extent of the component soils and their properties.
- Purpose:
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SSURGO depicts information about the kinds and distribution of
soils on the landscape. The soil map and data used in the SSURGO
product were prepared by soil scientists as part of the National
Cooperative Soil Survey.
- Supplemental_Information:
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Digital versions of hydrography, cultural features, and other
associated layers that are not part of the SSURGO data set may be
available from the primary organization listed in the Point of
Contact.
- Time_Period_of_Content:
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- Time_Period_Information:
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- Range_of_Dates/Times:
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- Beginning_Date: 19990319
- Ending_Date: 20081208
- Currentness_Reference: publication date
- Status:
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- Progress: Complete
- Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed
- Spatial_Domain:
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- Bounding_Coordinates:
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- West_Bounding_Coordinate: -95.570
- East_Bounding_Coordinate: -94.969
- North_Bounding_Coordinate: 39.653
- South_Bounding_Coordinate: 39.419
- Keywords:
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- Theme:
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- Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
- Theme_Keyword: soil survey
- Theme_Keyword: soils
- Theme_Keyword: Soil Survey Geographic
- Theme_Keyword: SSURGO
- Place:
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- Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
- Place_Keyword: Kansas
- Place_Keyword: Atchison County
- Place_Keyword: Horton Quadrangle
- Place_Keyword: Everest Quadrangle
- Place_Keyword: Denton Quadrangle
- Place_Keyword: Bendena Quadrangle
- Place_Keyword: Atchison NE Quadrangle
- Place_Keyword: Whiting Quadrangle
- Place_Keyword: Effingham Quadrangle
- Place_Keyword: Lancaster Quadrangle
- Place_Keyword: Atchison West Quadrangle
- Place_Keyword: Atchison East Quadrangle
- Place_Keyword: Arrington Quadrangle
- Place_Keyword: Half Mound Quadrangle
- Place_Keyword: Nortonville Quadrangle
- Place_Keyword: Potter Quadrangle
- Place_Keyword: Oak Mills Quadrangle
- Place_Keyword: Weston Quadrangle
- Access_Constraints: None
- Use_Constraints:
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation
Service, should be acknowledged as the data source in products
derived from these data.
This data set is not designed for use as a primary regulatory tool
in permitting or citing decisions, but may be used as a reference
source. This is public information and may be interpreted by
organizations, agencies, units of government, or others based on
needs; however, they are responsible for the appropriate
application. Federal, State, or local regulatory bodies are not to
reassign to the Natural Resources Conservation Service any
authority for the decisions that they make. The Natural Resources
Conservation Service will not perform any evaluations of these maps
for purposes related solely to State or local regulatory programs.
Photographic or digital enlargement of these maps to scales greater
than at which they were originally mapped can cause misinterpretation
of the data. If enlarged, maps do not show the small areas of
contrasting soils that could have been shown at a larger scale. The
depicted soil boundaries, interpretations, and analysis derived from
them do not eliminate the need for onsite sampling, testing, and
detailed study of specific sites for intensive uses. Thus, these data
and their interpretations are intended for planning purposes only.
Digital data files are periodically updated. Files are dated, and
users are responsible for obtaining the latest version of the data.
- Point_of_Contact:
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- Contact_Information:
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- Contact_Organization_Primary:
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- Contact_Organization:
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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service
- Contact_Position: State Soil Scientist
- Contact_Address:
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- Address_Type: mailing address
- Address: USDA - Natural Resources Conservation Service
- Address: Kansas State Office
- Address: 760 South Broadway
- City: Salina
- State_or_Province: KS
- Postal_Code: 67401-4642
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: 785-823-4558
- Contact_TDD/TTY_Telephone: 800-877-8339
- Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: cleveland.watts@ks.usda.gov
- Data_Quality_Information:
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- Attribute_Accuracy:
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- Attribute_Accuracy_Report:
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Attribute accuracy is tested by manual
comparison of the source with hard copy plots and/or symbolized
display of the map data on an interactive computer graphic system.
Selected attributes that cannot be visually verified on plots or
on screen are interactively queried and verified on screen. In
addition, the attributes are tested against a master set of valid
attributes. All attribute data conform to the attribute codes in
the signed classification and correlation document and amendment(s).
- Logical_Consistency_Report:
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Certain node/geometry and topology GT- polygon/chain relationships
are collected or generated to satisfy topological requirements
(the GT-polygon corresponds to the soil delineation). Some of these
requirements include: chains must begin and end at nodes, chains
must connect to each other at nodes, chains do not extend through
nodes, left and right GT-polygons are defined for each chain
element and are consistent throughout, and the chains representing
the limits of the file are free of gaps. The tests of logical
consistency are performed using vendor software. All internal
polygons are tested for closure with vendor software and are checked
on hard copy plots. All data are checked for common soil lines (i.e.,
adjacent polygons with the same label). Edge locations generally do
not deviate from centerline to centerline by more than 0.01 inch.
The boundary of this survey is matched to the adjacent SSURGO
certified surveys of Leavenworth County, Kansas, Jefferson County,
Kansas, Jackson County, Kansas, Brown County, Kansas, Doniphan County,
Kansas, Buchanan County, Missouri and Platte County, Missouri. Feature
edges and labels match those of the adjacent Kansas surveys only.
- Completeness_Report:
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A map unit is a collection of areas defined and named in terms of
their soil components or miscellaneous areas or both. Each map
unit differs in some respect from all others in a survey area and
each map unit has a symbol that uniquely identifies the map unit
on a soil map. Each individual area, point, or line so identified
on the map is a delineation.
Soil Scientists identify small areas of soils or miscellaneous areas
that have properties and behavior significantly different than the
named soils in the surrounding map unit. These minor components
may be indicated as special features. If they have a minimal effect
on use and management, or could not be precisely located, they may
not be indicated on the map.
A map unit has specified kinds of soils or miscellaneous areas
(map unit components), each with a designated range in
proportionate extent. Map units include one or more kinds of soil
or miscellaneous area. Miscellaneous areas are areas that have little
or no recognizable soil.
Specific National Cooperative Soil Survey standards and procedures
were used in the classification of soils, design and name of map
units, and location of special soil features. These standards are
outlined in Agricultural Handbook 18, Soil Survey Manual, 1993,
USDA, NRCS; Agricultural Handbook 436, Soil Taxonomy, 1995,
USDA, NRCS; and all Amendments; Keys to Soil Taxonomy,
(current issue) USDA, NRCS; National Soil Survey
Handbook, title 430-VI,(current issue) USDA, NRCS.
The actual composition and interpretive purity of the map unit
delineations were based on data collected by scientists during
the course of preparing the soil maps. Adherence to National
Cooperative Soil Survey standards and procedures is based on
peer review, quality control, and quality assurance. Quality
control is outlined in the memorandum of understanding for the
soil survey area and in documents that reside with the Natural
Resources Conservation Service state soil scientist. Four kinds
of map units are used in soil surveys: consociations, complexes,
associations, and undifferentiated groups.
Consociations - Consociations are named for the dominant soil.
In a consociation, delineated areas use a single name from the
dominant component in the map unit. Dissimilar components are
minor in extent. The soil component in a consociation may be
identified at any taxonomic level. Soil series is the lowest
taxonomic level. A consociation that is named as a miscellaneous
area is dominantly that kind of area and minor components do not
significantly affect the use of the map unit. The total amount of
dissimilar inclusions of other components in a map unit generally
does not exceed about 15 percent if limiting and 25 percent if
nonlimiting. A single component of a dissimilar limiting inclusion
generally does not exceed 10 percent if very contrasting.
Complexes and associations - Complexes and associations consist
of two or more dissimilar components that occur in a regularly
repeating pattern. The total amount of other dissimilar components
is minor extent. The following arbitrary rule determines whether
complex or association is used in the name. The major components
of an association can be separated at the scale of mapping. In
either case, because the major components are sufficiently different
in morphology or behavior, the map unit cannot be called a
consociation. In each delineation of a complex or an association,
each major component is normally present though their proportions
may vary appreciably from one delineation to another. The total
amount of inclusions in a map unit that are dissimilar to any of
the major components does not exceed 15 percent if limiting and
25 percent if nonlimiting. A single kind of dissimilar limiting
inclusion usually does not exceed 10 percent.
Undifferentiated groups - Undifferentiated groups consist of two
or more components that are not consistently associated
geographically and, therefore, do not always occur together in
the same map delineation. These components are included in the
same named map unit because their use and management are the same
or very similar for common uses. Generally they are grouped together
because some common feature, such as steepness, stoniness, or
flooding, determines their use and management. If two or more
additional map units would serve no useful purpose, they may be
included in the same unit. Each delineation has at least one of the
major components, and some may have all of them. The same principles
regarding the proportion of minor components that apply to
consociations also apply to undifferentiated groups. The same
principles regarding proportion of inclusion apply to
undifferentiated groups as to consociations.
Minimum documentation consists of three complete soil profile
descriptions that are collected for each soil added to the legend,
one additional per 3,000 acres mapped; three 10 observation
transects for each map unit, one additional 10 point transect per
3,000 acres.
A defined standard or level of confidence in the interpretive
purity of the map unit delineations is attained by adjusting the
kind and intensity of field investigations. Field investigations
and data collection are carried out in sufficient detail to name
map units and to identify accurately and consistently areas of
about 5 acres.
- Positional_Accuracy:
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- Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:
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- Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:
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The accuracy of these digital data is based upon their
compilation to base maps that meet National Map
Accuracy Standards at a scale of 1 inch equals 1,000
feet. The difference in positional accuracy between the
soil boundaries and special soil features locations in the
field and their digitized map locations is unknown. The
locational accuracy of soil delineations on the ground varies
with the transition between map units.
For example, on long gently sloping landscapes the transition
occurs gradually over many feet. Where landscapes change
abruptly from steep to level, the transition will be very
narrow. Soil delineation boundaries and special soil features
generally were digitized within 0.01 inch of their locations on
the digitizing source. The digital map elements are edge matched
between data sets. The data along each quadrangle edge are
matched against the data for the adjacent quadrangle. Edge
locations generally do not deviate from centerline to centerline
by more than 0.01 inch.
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- Source_Information:
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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation
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- Title: Soil Survey of Atchison County, Kansas
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information for soil map unit delineations,
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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation
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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation
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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation
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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation
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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation
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digitized soils of Leavenworth and Wyandotte
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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources
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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources
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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources
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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources
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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources
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Soil Survey Geographic (SSURGO) database for Atchison
County, Kansas
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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources
Conservation Service, National Cartography and Geospatial
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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources
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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources
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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources
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Soil Survey Geographic (SSURGO) database for Atchison
County, Kansas
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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources
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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources
Conservation Service
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Soil Survey Geographic (SSURGO) database for Atchison
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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources
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- Source_Contribution: certified SSURGO data used for revisions
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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources
Conservation Service
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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources
Conservation Service
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- Publication_Place: Fort Worth, Texas
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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources
Conservation Service
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publication date of USGS topographic
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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency,
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- Publication_Information:
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- Publication_Place: Salt Lake City, Utah
- Publisher:
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U.S. Department of Agriculture, Farm Services
Agency, Aerial Photography Field Office
- Source_Scale_Denominator: 12000
- Type_of_Source_Media: CD-ROM
- Source_Time_Period_of_Content:
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- Time_Period_Information:
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- Range_of_Dates/Times:
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- Beginning_Date: 2007
- Ending_Date: 2008
- Source_Currentness_Reference: 2006 (flight date)
- Source_Citation_Abbreviation: APFO1
- Source_Contribution: reference for digitizing and editing
- Process_Step:
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- Process_Description:
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Atchison County has a previously published soil survey, 1984, at
1:20,000 scale. Major field work for the Soil Survey of Atchison
County, Kansas was completed in 1980. The soils were identified
by traversing and transecting the landscape.
- Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: SCS1
- Process_Date: 1984
- Process_Step:
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- Process_Description:
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Soil survey delineations between soil survey area boundaries
were joined on the soil survey publication maps. Soil survey
publication maps of the adjoining published soil surveys (Brown,
Doniphan, Jackson, Jefferson, and Leavenworth and Wyandotte
Counties, Kansas) were used as base materials and transferred to
annotated overlays of the Atchison County Soil Survey. The map
unit delineations were extended into surrounding counties or
extended from adjoining counties to create a seamless product
between political boundaries. This required the addition of map
units to the Atchison County Soil Survey. They have been
subsequently added to the NASIS database.
- Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation:
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SCS1, SCS2, SCS3, SCS4,
SCS5, SCS6, NRCS1
- Process_Date: 1998
- Process_Step:
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- Process_Description:
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Atlas sheets in the published soil survey were reduced in scale
by a factor of .833 to approximately 1:24,000 scale on a copying
machine. The soil delineations were compiled onto stable-base
overlays registered to the USGS stable-based topographic
quadrangles. Compilation was performed by Kansas State University
(KSU) students under the direct supervision of a Natural Resources
Conservation Service (NRCS) soil scientist. Quality control was
performed by the NRCS soil scientist prior to scanning. The soil
delineation overlays were raster scanned at 400X400 dots per inch
using an Ideal FSS4016T full scale scanner. Four control points
corresponding to the four corners of the USGS topographic mylars
were used in the data collection. Raster to vector conversion was
done using Scorpion SRV386 software. The processing, vector
editing, labeling, and edge matching were done using PC ARC/INFO
version 3.4D. Map neatlines and soil survey area lines were
developed from USGS quadrangles using AutoCAD. The data were
written to a Digital Line Graph optional format. Digitizing was
preformed by KSU students under supervision of a university
professor in the Department of Geography. Quality control was
performed by the NRCS soil scientist on check plots after
scanning, labeling, and editing were completed.
- Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: USGS1, SCS1, NRCS1, NRCS3
- Process_Date: 1993
- Process_Step:
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- Process_Description:
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The digital soils layer was imported into ARC/INFO 7.1.1, and
converted from single to double precision. It was edited using
digital orthophotography as a reference. Soil boundaries were
adjusted around areas of water and along rivers to conform to
the image. Ponds of less than 5 acres were deleted. Adjustments
were made to soil lines and labels along the soil survey
boundary by a NRCS soil scientist to achieve a quality join with
surrounding soil survey areas. Special soil features were
digitized in a separate layer. Quadrangles were edge matched, and
neatlines were checked for accuracy by Kansas State University
students and a NRCS cartographer. The soil line and special
feature files were exported to Digital Line Graph optional
(DLG-3) format. The data were imported for verification in
ARC/INFO 7.2.1. The DLG-3 files were reviewed by NRCS Regional
Digitizing Center staff in Salina, Kansas for adherence to SSURGO
standards.
- Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: NRCS2, USGS2, NRCS4, NRCS5
- Process_Date: 1998
- Process_Step:
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- Process_Description:
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The Map Unit Interpretations Record database was developed by
Natural Resources Conservation Service soil scientists according
to national standards.
- Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: SCS1, NRCS2
- Process_Date: 1999
- Process_Step:
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- Process_Description:
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The spatial data for this survey area have been revised to
incorporate the National Soil Information System database (NASIS).
Also during this revision, updates to the spatial and attribute
data were made, and the spatial and attribute data map unit
symbols were converted to the 4-digit Kansas Statewide Numeric
Legend. The data were reviewed by staff at the NRCS Regional
Digitizing Center in Salina, Kansas for compliance with SSURGO
standards. The certified data were uploaded to the USDA-NRCS Soil
Data Warehouse for archiving and distribution.
- Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: NRCS6
- Process_Date: 2004
- Process_Step:
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- Process_Description:
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The National Soil Information System database was developed by
NRCS soil scientists according to national standards and
specifications.
- Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: NRCS6, SCS1
- Process_Date: 2004
- Process_Step:
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- Process_Description:
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The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or
delegate, upon completion of data quality verification, determined
that the tabular data should be released for official use. A
selected set of map units and components in the soil survey legend was
copied to a staging database, and rating values for selected
interpretations were generated. The list of selected interpretations is
stored in the database table named sainterp.
- Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: NASIS
- Process_Date: 20041221
- Process_Step:
-
- Process_Description:
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The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or
delegate verified that the labels on the digitized soil map units
link to map units in the tabular database, and certified the joined
data sets for release to the Soil Data Warehouse. A system assigned
version number and date stamp were added and the data were copied to
the data warehouse. The tabular data for the map units and components
were extracted from the data warehouse and reformatted into the soil
data delivery data model, then stored in the Soil Data Mart. The spatial
data were copied to the Soil Data Mart without change.
- Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: NASIS
- Process_Date: 20041221
- Process_Step:
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- Process_Description:
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The spatial and tabular data for this survey area have been
revised incorporate a global map unit symbol change. All soil map
unit delineations previously labeled as '4020' were changed to
'4350'. Editing and SSURGO review were performed by staff at the
NRCS Regional Digitizing Center in Salina, Kansas using ArcGIS
version 8.3. The certified data were uploaded to the USDA-NRCS
Soil Data Warehouse for archiving and distribution.
- Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: NRCS7
- Process_Date: 2006
- Process_Step:
-
- Process_Description:
-
The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or
delegate, upon completion of data quality verification, determined
that the tabular data should be released for official use. A
selected set of map units and components in the soil survey legend was
copied to a staging database, and rating values for selected
interpretations were generated. The list of selected interpretations is
stored in the database table named sainterp.
- Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: NASIS
- Process_Date: 20060206
- Process_Step:
-
- Process_Description:
-
The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or
delegate verified that the labels on the digitized soil map units
link to map units in the tabular database, and certified the joined
data sets for release to the Soil Data Warehouse. A system assigned
version number and date stamp were added and the data were copied to
the data warehouse. The tabular data for the map units and components
were extracted from the data warehouse and reformatted into the soil
data delivery data model, then stored in the Soil Data Mart. The spatial
data were copied to the Soil Data Mart without change.
- Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: NASIS
- Process_Date: 20060206
- Process_Step:
-
- Process_Description:
-
The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or
delegate, upon completion of data quality verification, determined
that the tabular data should be released for official use. A
selected set of map units and components in the soil survey legend was
copied to a staging database, and rating values for selected
interpretations were generated. The list of selected interpretations is
stored in the database table named sainterp.
- Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: NASIS
- Process_Date: 20061211
- Process_Step:
-
- Process_Description:
-
The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or
delegate verified that the labels on the digitized soil map units
link to map units in the tabular database, and certified the joined
data sets for release to the Soil Data Warehouse. A system assigned
version number and date stamp were added and the data were copied to
the data warehouse. The tabular data for the map units and components
were extracted from the data warehouse and reformatted into the soil
data delivery data model, then stored in the Soil Data Mart. The spatial
data were copied to the Soil Data Mart without change.
- Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: NASIS
- Process_Date: 20061212
- Process_Step:
-
- Process_Description:
-
The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or
delegate, upon completion of data quality verification, determined
that the tabular data should be released for official use. A
selected set of map units and components in the soil survey legend was
copied to a staging database, and rating values for selected
interpretations were generated. The list of selected interpretations is
stored in the database table named sainterp.
- Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: NASIS
- Process_Date: 20071213
- Process_Step:
-
- Process_Description:
-
The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or
delegate verified that the labels on the digitized soil map units
link to map units in the tabular database, and certified the joined
data sets for release to the Soil Data Warehouse. A system assigned
version number and date stamp were added and the data were copied to
the data warehouse. The tabular data for the map units and components
were extracted from the data warehouse and reformatted into the soil
data delivery data model, then stored in the Soil Data Mart. The spatial
data were copied to the Soil Data Mart without change.
- Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: NASIS
- Process_Date: 20071213
- Process_Step:
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- Process_Description:
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The spatial and attribute data for this survey area have been
revised. Edits were made due to updates in the Stranger Creek
Watershed. An evaluation of the Stranger Creek Watershed found
significant line adjustments were needed to conform with the
landscape. Soil survey maintenance was performed during the period
of 2002 to 2008. Field procedures included plotting of soil
boundaries by field observation and by interpretation of remotely
sensed data. Boundaries were identified by traversing and
transecting the landscape. Soil scientists described and sampled
the soils, analyzed samples in the laboratory, and statistically
analyzed the data. Soil delineations were digitized on-screen,
converted to polygons and labeled in ArcGIS version 9.2. Digital
orthophotographs and digital raster graphic mosaics were used for
reference during digitizing and editing. Compilation was performed
by NRCS soil scientists. The updated Stranger Creek Watershed
mapping was merged with the seamless soils coverage for Atchison
County, Kansas, previously published in 2006. Final editing and
review for adherence to SSURGO standards were completed by
cartographic staff at the NRCS Regional Digitizing Center in Salina,
Kansas. The data were exported to coverage format and processed
with the January 2006 SSURGO evaluation AMLs provided by the NRCS
National Cartography and Geospatial Center (NCGC). The certified
data were uploaded to the NRCS Soil Data Warehouse for archiving
and distribution.
- Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: NRCS8, NRcs9, NRCS10, APFO1
- Process_Date: 2008
- Process_Step:
-
- Process_Description:
-
The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or
delegate, upon completion of data quality verification, determined
that the tabular data should be released for official use. A
selected set of map units and components in the soil survey legend was
copied to a staging database, and rating values for selected
interpretations were generated. The list of selected interpretations is
stored in the database table named sainterp.
- Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: NASIS
- Process_Date: 20081208
- Process_Step:
-
- Process_Description:
-
The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or
delegate verified that the labels on the digitized soil map units
link to map units in the tabular database, and certified the joined
data sets for release to the Soil Data Warehouse. A system assigned
version number and date stamp were added and the data were copied to
the data warehouse. The tabular data for the map units and components
were extracted from the data warehouse and reformatted into the soil
data delivery data model, then stored in the Soil Data Mart. The spatial
data were copied to the Soil Data Mart without change.
- Source_Used_Citation_Abbreviation: NASIS
- Process_Date: 20081208
- Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:
-
- Direct_Spatial_Reference_Method: Vector
- Spatial_Reference_Information:
-
- Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:
-
- Planar:
-
- Grid_Coordinate_System:
-
- Grid_Coordinate_System_Name: Universal Transverse Mercator
- Universal_Transverse_Mercator:
-
- UTM_Zone_Number: 15
- Transverse_Mercator:
-
- Scale_Factor_at_Central_Meridian: 0.999600
- Longitude_of_Central_Meridian: -93.000000
- Latitude_of_Projection_Origin: 0.000000
- False_Easting: 500000.000000
- False_Northing: 0.000000
- Planar_Coordinate_Information:
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- Planar_Coordinate_Encoding_Method: coordinate pair
- Coordinate_Representation:
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- Abscissa_Resolution: 0.000128
- Ordinate_Resolution: 0.000128
- Planar_Distance_Units: meters
- Geodetic_Model:
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- Horizontal_Datum_Name: North American Datum of 1983
- Ellipsoid_Name: Geodetic Reference System 80
- Semi-major_Axis: 6378137.000000
- Denominator_of_Flattening_Ratio: 298.257222
- Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
-
- Detailed_Description:
-
- Entity_Type:
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- Entity_Type_Label: Special Soil Features
- Entity_Type_Definition:
-
Special Soil Features represent soil, miscellaneous area, or landform
features that are too small to be digitized as soil delineations
(area features).
- Entity_Type_Definition_Source: Agricultural Handbook 18, Soil Survey Manual, 1993, USDA, SCS.
- Attribute:
-
- Attribute_Label: Special Soil Features Codes
- Attribute_Definition:
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Special Soil Features labels represent specific Special Soil
Features. These features are identified with a descriptive
label. The label is assigned to the point or line assigned
to represent the feature on maps.
- Attribute_Definition_Source:
-
Agricultural Handbook 18, Soil Survey Manual, 1993, USDA, SCS;
National Soil Survey Handbook, Title 430-VI, part 647
(current issue), USDA, NRCS.
- Attribute_Domain_Values:
-
- Codeset_Domain:
-
- Codeset_Name:
-
Classification and Correlation of the Soils of Atchison
County, Kansas
- Codeset_Source:
-
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources
Conservation Service
- Overview_Description:
-
- Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:
-
Map Unit Delineations are closed polygons that may be dominated
by a single soil or miscellaneous area component plus allowable
similar or dissimilar soils, or they can be geographic mixtures
of groups of soils or soils and miscellaneous areas.
The map unit symbol uniquely identifies each closed map unit
delineation. Each symbol corresponds to a map unit name. The map
unit key is used to link to information in the National Soil
Information System tables.
Map Unit Delineations are described by the National Soil
Information System database. This attribute database gives the
proportionate extent of the component soils and the properties for
each soil. The database contains both estimated and measured data
on the physical and chemical soil properties and soil
interpretations for engineering, water management, recreation,
agronomic, woodland, range, and wildlife uses of the soil.
The National Soil Information System database contains static
metadata. It documents the data structure and includes such
information as what tables, columns, indexes, and relationships
are defined as well as a variety of attributes of each of these
database objects. Attributes include table and column
descriptions and detailed domain information.
The National Soil Information System database also contains a
distribution metadata. It records the criteria used for selecting
map units and components for inclusion in the set of distributed
data.
Special features are described in the feature table. It includes
an area symbol, feature label, feature name, and feature description
for each special and ad hoc feature in the survey area.
- Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation:
-
Soil Taxonomy: A basic system of soil classification for making and
interpreting soil surveys. Agricultural Handbook 436, 1999, USDA, SCS.
Keys to Soil Taxonomy (current issue), USDA, SCS.
National Soil Survey Handbook, Title 430-VI, part 647 (current
issue), USDA, NRCS.
Agricultural Handbook 18, Soil Survey Manual, 1993, USDA, SCS.
- Distribution_Information:
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- Distributor:
-
- Contact_Information:
-
- Contact_Organization_Primary:
-
- Contact_Organization:
-
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural
Resources Conservation Service, National
Cartography and Geospatial Center
- Contact_Address:
-
- Address_Type: mailing and physical address
- Address: 501 West Felix Street, Building 23, P.O. Box 6567
- City: Fort Worth
- State_or_Province: Texas
- Postal_Code: 76115
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: 800 672 5559
- Contact_TDD/TTY_Telephone: 202 720 2600
- Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 817 509 3469
- Resource_Description: Atchison County, Kansas SSURGO
- Distribution_Liability:
-
Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer
system at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, no warranty expressed
or implied is made by the Agency regarding the utility of the data
on any other system, nor shall the act of distribution constitute
any such warranty. The U.S. Department of Agriculture will warrant
the delivery of this product in computer readable format, and will
offer appropriate adjustment of credit when the product is determined
unreadable by correctly adjusted computer input peripherals, or
when the physical medium is delivered in damaged condition. Request
for adjustment of credit must be made within 90 days from the date
of this shipment from the ordering site.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, nor any of its agencies are
liable for misuse of the data, for damage, for transmission of
viruses, or for computer contamination through the distribution of
these data sets. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) prohibits
discrimination in all its programs and activities on the basis of race,
color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, political
beliefs, sexual orientation, or marital or family status. (Not all
prohibited bases apply to all programs.)
- Standard_Order_Process:
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- Digital_Form:
-
- Digital_Transfer_Information:
-
- Format_Name: ArcView shapefile
- Format_Information_Content: spatial
- File_Decompression_Technique: WinZip or equivalent
- Transfer_Size: 6.8
- Digital_Transfer_Option:
-
- Online_Option:
-
- Computer_Contact_Information:
-
- Network_Address:
-
- Network_Resource_Name: URL:<http://SoilDataMart.nrcs.usda.gov/>
- Access_Instructions:
-
Select desired survey area at above Internet Web site. An email
address is required for receipt of instructions on retrieval via
anonymous FTP. Anticipate a delay between submission of request
at Web site and receipt of email message.
- Digital_Form:
-
- Digital_Transfer_Information:
-
- Format_Name: ARC/INFO coverage
- Format_Information_Content: spatial
- File_Decompression_Technique: WinZip or equivalent
- Transfer_Size: 6.8
- Digital_Transfer_Option:
-
- Online_Option:
-
- Computer_Contact_Information:
-
- Network_Address:
-
- Network_Resource_Name: URL:<http://SoilDataMart.nrcs.usda.gov/>
- Access_Instructions:
-
Select desired survey area at above Internet Web site. An email
address is required for receipt of instructions on retrieval via
anonymous FTP. Anticipate a delay between submission of request
at Web site and receipt of email message.
- Digital_Form:
-
- Digital_Transfer_Information:
-
- Format_Name: ARC/INFO interchange file
- Format_Information_Content: spatial
- File_Decompression_Technique: WinZip or equivalent
- Transfer_Size: 6.8
- Digital_Transfer_Option:
-
- Online_Option:
-
- Computer_Contact_Information:
-
- Network_Address:
-
- Network_Resource_Name: URL:<http://SoilDataMart.nrcs.usda.gov/>
- Access_Instructions:
-
Select desired survey area at above Internet Web site. An email
address is required for receipt of instructions on retrieval via
anonymous FTP. Anticipate a delay between submission of request
at Web site and receipt of email message.
- Digital_Form:
-
- Digital_Transfer_Information:
-
- Format_Name: ASCII
- Format_Information_Content: keys and attributes
- File_Decompression_Technique: WinZip or equivalent
- Transfer_Size: 14.6
- Digital_Transfer_Option:
-
- Online_Option:
-
- Computer_Contact_Information:
-
- Network_Address:
-
- Network_Resource_Name: URL:<http://SoilDataMart.nrcs.usda.gov/>
- Access_Instructions:
-
Select desired survey area at above Internet Web site. An email
address is required for receipt of instructions on retrieval via
anonymous FTP. Anticipate a delay between submission of request
at Web site and receipt of email message.
- Fees:
-
There is currently no direct charge for requesting data or for
retrieval via FTP.
- Ordering_Instructions:
-
Visit the above mentioned Internet Web Site, select state or
territory, then select individual soil survey area of interest.
Spatial line data and locations of special feature symbols are in
ESRI ArcGIS (ArcView, ArcInfo) shapefile, coverage and interchange
(i.e., export) formats. The National Soil Information System
attribute soil data are available in variable length, pipe
delimited, ASCII file format.
- Turnaround: Typically within four hours
- Metadata_Reference_Information:
-
- Metadata_Date: 20081208
- Metadata_Contact:
-
- Contact_Information:
-
- Contact_Organization_Primary:
-
- Contact_Organization:
-
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service
- Contact_Position: State Soil Scientist
- Contact_Address:
-
- Address_Type: mailing address
- Address: USDA - Natural Resources Conservation Service
- Address: Kansas State Office
- Address: 760 South Broadway
- City: Salina
- State_or_Province: KS
- Postal_Code: 67401-4642
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: 785-823-4558
- Contact_TDD/TTY_Telephone: 800-877-8339
- Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: cleveland.watts@ks.usda.gov
- Metadata_Standard_Name: Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
- Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998
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