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Title: Soil Survey, Tompkins County NY, 1965

Contributors:

Dates

  • Issued: 1965
  • Coverage: 1965

Summary

Various county departments, local municipal agencies, and other not-for-profit organizations have identified the need for a digital soil coverage data set for Tompkins County, NY. The Tompkins County ITS GIS Division initiated and developed a digital soil coverage from the official analog soil map series produced and published by the United States Geology Survey (USGS) and Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station. The field survey has been conducted during the 60es. To provide a GIS countywide coverage that consists of polygons defining the soils boundaries and to add enough basic attributes to achieve a fundamental degree of categorization. Open, all-purpose data set.

Subjects

  • Tompkins County
  • soil survey
  • farming
  • Soils
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-76.696261, -76.237364, 42.627418, 42.262698)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-76.696261, -76.237364, 42.627418, 42.262698)

Provider

CUGIR, Cornell University

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

United States Department Of Agriculture (USDA), Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station. Soil Survey, Tompkins County NY, 1965. Polygon data. https://cugir.library.cornell.edu/catalog/cugir-007498

Format

Shapefile