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    • Major Land Resource Areas (MLRA)

    Metadata Updated: November 26, 2025

    This is a polygon coverage of the Land Resource Regions and Major Land Resource Areas of the conterminous United States. Land resource regions are geographic areas that are characterized by a particular pattern of soils, climate, water resources and land uses. (USDA, Soil Conservation Service, 1981). Major land resource areas are subregions of the land resource regions and comprise smaller homogeneous areas. The scale of this coverage is 1:2,000,000.

    Note: The Soil Conservation Service now (1995) is called the Natural Resources Conservation Service.

    Descriptors:

    Land Resource Regions Major Land Resource Areas United States

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. 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 Created Date September 12, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date November 26, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DOI USGS DCAT-US

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date September 12, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date November 26, 2025
    Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
    Maintainer
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    Data Last Modified 2020-11-17T00:00:00Z
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 010:12
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    Metadata Type geospatial
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash d993a2c533617e34e0ad6f7af8ebb2d70d70d39be7c8f3ca9dcf329772e539bf
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