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EnviroAtlas - Percent Agriculture on Hydric Soil for the Conterminous United States

Metadata Updated: September 22, 2025

This EnviroAtlas dataset contains data on Agricultural Land Coverage on Hydric Soils for each Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD) 12-Digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC-12) of the conterminous United States. This is based on the October 2023 Natural Resources Conservation Service gridded Service Soil Survey Geographic Database and gridded National Soil Survey Geographic Databased (NRCS gSSURGO and gNATSGO), the 2021 National Land Cover Database (NLCD) and the 2020 Cropland Data Layer (CDL). The hydric soils are determined based on whether hydric soils make up 80% or more of a mapunit's components. The raster was made binary, where the mapunit's with at least 80% hydric soil coverage were assigned a value of 1. This was then intersected with a 30-m raster that combines the NLCD and CDL resources, where the CDL provides more exact and detailed agricultural land coverage. This layer does not include the NLCD class Pasture/Hay as agricultural lands.

This dataset was produced by the US EPA to support research and online mapping activities related to EnviroAtlas. EnviroAtlas (https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas) allows the user to interact with a web-based, easy-to-use, mapping application to view and analyze multiple ecosystem services for the contiguous United States. The dataset is available as downloadable data (https://edg.epa.gov/data/Public/ORD/EnviroAtlas) or as an EnviroAtlas map service. Additional descriptive information about each attribute in this dataset can be found in its associated EnviroAtlas Fact Sheet (https://www.epa.gov/enviroatlas/enviroatlas-fact-sheets).

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License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Dates

Metadata Date August 5, 2025
Metadata Created Date August 6, 2025
Metadata Updated Date September 22, 2025
Reference Date(s) December 1, 2024 (creation), December 31, 2024 (publication)
Frequency Of Update asNeeded

Metadata Source

Harvested from Environmental Dataset Gateway ISO Geospatial Metadata

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Date August 5, 2025
Metadata Created Date August 6, 2025
Metadata Updated Date September 22, 2025
Reference Date(s) December 1, 2024 (creation), December 31, 2024 (publication)
Responsible Party U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development - Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment (CPHEA), EnviroAtlas (Publisher)
Contact Email
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Category Tag 16E15F51 D96E 4051 9124 75665Abdc6Ff ["Water"]
Access Constraints https://edg.epa.gov/EPA_Data_License.html
Bbox East Long -65.25485
Bbox North Lat 51.64959
Bbox South Lat 22.868654
Bbox West Long -128.007244
Coupled Resource
Frequency Of Update asNeeded
Harvest Object Id 163691db-b1df-4169-986b-af66bb80228e
Harvest Source Id 9b3cd81e-5515-4bb7-ad3c-5ae44de9b4bd
Harvest Source Title Environmental Dataset Gateway ISO Geospatial Metadata
Licence None. Please check sources, scale, accuracy, currency and other available information. Please confirm that you are using the most recent copy of both data and metadata. Acknowledgement of the EPA would be appreciated.
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Metadata Language eng
Metadata Type geospatial
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Progress completed
Spatial Data Service Type
Spatial Reference System 102039
Spatial Harvester True
Temporal Extent Begin 2021-01-01T00:00:00
Temporal Extent End 2021-12-31T00:00:00

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