NRCS
From Wildsong
USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service
Soil data
You can download data from their Web Soil Survey page, at https://websoilsurvey.sc.egov.usda.gov/App/HomePage.htm and then (in theory) view it in their desktop app (if you have MS Access) or using their ArcGIS extension.
- So far I cannot view the data in their data viewer.
- It's because the database is empty.
- To populate the database requires a copy of MS Access, which I don't have.
- So their viewer and extension are useless to me.
Workflow
- Go to WSS
- Select a county
- Download the data
- Unzip it
- Copy the tabular/mapunit.txt to mapunit.csv
- Edit the tabular/mapunit.csv file to add a header line
- Join the spatial and mapunit.csv in QGIS
- Save the joined data to a shapefile
- Import the shapefile into the project