USGS Soil Area Download

This command downloads soil group index and soil boundary lines from USGS website, and then draw soil polylines and index labels in the plan view. These soil lines and labels are then used in watershed analysis to calculate weighted curve numbers.

The program requires to define the dwg grid projection in order to convert the local area to Latitude/Longitudinal values used on USGS website. Run command Settings > Drawing Setup to set up the local projection, zone and Lat/Lon datum.


In order to draw soil lines and labels on the drawing for watershed analysis purpose, it's required to set up the layers for soil lines and labels. Run command > Watershed > Define Watershed Layers to set up layers for soil lines and labels.


Run Watershed > USGS Soil Area Download, then either pick bounding box or specify a surface file in order to download soil lines in side the watershed perimeter.





Pulldown Menu Location: Watershed > USGS Soil Area Download
Keyboard Command:
usgs_soil
Prerequisite:
Run Watershed > Define Watershed Layers command to set soil layers