Technical Standards for Soil Assessment and Soil Survey Procedures

NRCS evaluates and maps soils according to the standards of the National Cooperative Soil Survey (NCSS).  A variety of documents on these standards and procedures and methods are available from the National Soil Survey Center web site on Procedures.

NH NRCS has also been a leader in developing standards for site specific mapping in New Hampshire and Vermont.  These standards are based on the NCSS standards.

The NH-VT Site Specific Soil Mapping Standards are available here for download.  This document requires Adobe Acrobat.

Site Specific Soil Mapping Standards for New Hampshire and Vermont (202 KB)