The second step in using Web Soil Survey is to explore all of the available information about your area of interest.
The Soil Data Explorer tab provides several ways of getting the information you need.
You can view soil information about a specific use, such as cropland, forestland, rangeland, or urban development, by selecting the use from the drop-down list on the button bar.
To get a particular type of soil information, use the inner tabs of Soil Data Explorer:
Depending on the use category that you select from the drop-down list, the tabs and the contents of the tabs will change. Above, you see the inner tabs that are displayed when the Rangeland use category is selected.
In Web Soil Survey, you select information in the left
column and view it in the right column. When you want to
print or save the information in the right column,
click the Printable Version button:
For a custom report of soils data in your area of
interest, you can add specific data to your shopping cart. First you
view the information in the right column, and then click the
Add to Shopping Cart button:
If you change the map layers after you have added the soil map to the shopping cart, you will need to add it to the shopping cart again.
