Research Guides: Soil Science: Maps, Mapping &amp; GIS

Maps, Mapping & GIS

The UC Davis Library provides resources and services for those studying and applying spatial information. These include physical map collections, GIS resources and tools and services, and a vast array of geographic and cartographic material across the UC Davis Library.

For any questions about Maps, Mapping, and GIS, check out our Map Collection resources.

Soil Geography
Includes Soil Color maps by State.
US General Soil Map
Produced by NCRS/USDA, the “Digital General Soil Map of the United States or STATSGO2 is a broad-based inventory of soils and non-soil areas that occur in a repeatable pattern on the landscape and that can be cartographically shown at the scale mapped of 1:250,000 for most of U.S and territories and 1:1M for Alaska.”