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Major Land Resource Areas (MLRA)

Metadata Updated: January 3, 2024

The MLRA Geographic Database was prepared for Agriculture Handbook 296 re-publication and is used to support decisions about regional and national agricultural issues. The database and AH 296 help to identify the need for research and resource inventories. The handbook serves as the vehicle for extrapolating the results of research across political boundaries and is the basis for organizing and operating natural resource conservation programs. Today, USDA soil survey offices are organized to serve groups of the major land resource areas defined in this handbook. The handbook was first published in 1965 as an expansion of the 1950 map entitled “Problem Areas in Soil Conservation”, and was designed primarily for use by the Soil Conservation Service. The handbook was updated in 1978, and the second edition was printed in 1981. The third edition was published in 2006. The 2022 publication is the fourth edition.

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: us-pd

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Dates

Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date January 3, 2024

Metadata Source

Harvested from USDA JSON

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date January 3, 2024
Publisher Natural Resources Conservation Service
Maintainer
Identifier NRCS0106
Data First Published 2022-05-11
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 2022-12-07
Rights true
Category geospatial
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 015:11
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Data Quality True
Harvest Object Id 9906f1a5-f411-4453-99f8-1be0ecfbac7e
Harvest Source Id d3fafa34-0cb9-48f1-ab1d-5b5fdc783806
Harvest Source Title USDA JSON
Homepage URL https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/resources/data-and-reports/major-land-resource-area-mlra
License https://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
Metadata Type geospatial
Old Spatial United State, Territories, Commonwealths and Island Nations
Program Code 015:001
Publisher Hierarchy Natural Resources Conservation Service > Natural Resources Conservation Service
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 1cf891e7981afc05dd6fae5d70711871cef3149c071fc44ede5d1c69812fb4a0
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial

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