The first step is to define your area of interest (AOI).

You can navigate to it and define it using either the Quick Navigation panel in the left column or the Interactive Map in the right column.

Navigating to your AOI

Using Quick Navigation: Navigate by entering all or part of an address (street number, city, state, zip code); state and county; soil survey area; latitude and longitude; section, township, and range; BLM field office; Department of Defense installation; Forest Service unit; National Park; or 8-digit hydrologic unit.

Using the Interactive Map: Navigate by using the buttons on the map toolbar:  Move the cursor over a button to see a tooltip that describes what the button does.

Defining your AOI

Using Quick Navigation: Define an entire soil survey area as your AOI.

Using the Interactive Map: Define an area up to 10,000 acres by using the AOI tools on the map toolbar: When using the polygon AOI tool, double click or CTRL-click the last point to finish the polygon. To start over after beginning to define a polygon, press the Escape key (Esc).

Looking at map legend and layers

To see the map legend and layers, click the Legend tab on the left side of the map panel. The map legend will open in a floating window.

To close the map legend, click the button or click the Legend tab name again.