Dataset Identification:

Resource Abstract:
This data set is a digital soil survey and generally is the most detailed level of soil geographic data developed by the National Cooperative Soil Survey. The information was prepared by digitizing maps, by compiling information onto a planimetric correct base and digitizing, or by revising digitized maps using remotely sensed and other information. This data set consists of georeferenced digital map data and computerized attribute data. The map data are in a soil survey area extent format and include a detailed, field verified inventory of soils and miscellaneous areas that normally occur in a repeatable pattern on the landscape and that can be cartographically shown at the scale mapped. A special soil features layer (point and line features) is optional. This layer displays the location of features too small to delineate at the mapping scale, but they are large enough and contrasting enough to significantly influence use and management. The soil map units are linked to attributes in the National Soil Information System relational database, which gives the proportionate extent of the component soils and their properties.
Citation
Title Soil Survey Geographic (SSURGO) database for Catron County, New Mexico, Northern Part
publication  Date   2014-06-09T16:00:06
cited responsible party - originator
organisation Name  U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service
cited responsible party - publisher
organisation Name  U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service
Contact information
Address
, Fort Worth, Texas
Topic Category:  geoscientificInformation
Theme keywords:
soil survey
soils
Soil Survey Geographic
SSURGO
thesaurus name >
Title None
Location keywords:
New Mexico
Catron County
Adams Diggings Quadrangle
Alegres Mountain Quadrangle
Anderson Peak Quadrangle
Armstrong Canyon Quadrangle
Augustine Well Quadrangle
Bell Peak Quadrangle
Black Mountain Quadrangle
Black Peak Quadrangle
Blaines Lake Quadrangle
Blue Hills Quadrangle
Bonine Canyon Quadrangle
Cal Ship Mesa Quadrangle
Carrisito Spring Quadrangle
Cerro Prieto Quadrangle
C-N Lake Quadrangle
Cow Springs Quadrangle
Cox Peak Quadrangle
Crosby Springs Quadrangle
D Cross Mountain Quadrangle
Datil Quadrangle
Dog Springs Quadrangle
Dusty Quadrangle
Escondido Mountains Quadrangle
Fence Lake SW Quadrangle
Fullerton Quadrangle
Gallo Mountains West Quadrangle
Goat Spring Quadrangle
Horse Mountain East Quadrangle
Horse Mountain West Quadrangle
Indian Peaks East Quadrangle
Indian Peaks West Quadrangle
Iron Mountain Quadrangle
John Kerr Peak Quadrangle
Jones Canyon Quadrangle
Kellog Well Quadrangle
Lake Armijo Quadrangle
Lion Mountain NW Quadrangle
Loco Knoll Quadrangle
Log Canyon Quadrangle
Luera Mountains East Quadrangle
Luera Mountains NW Quadrangle
Luera Mountains West Quadrangle
Madre Mountain Quadrangle
Mangas Quadrangle
Mangas Mountain Quadrangle
Mariano Springs Quadrangle
Mesa Parada Quadrangle
Mojonera Canyon Quadrangle
Moreno Hill Quadrangle
Nelson Reservoir NE Quadrangle
O Bar O Canyon East Quadrangle
O Bar O Canyon West Quadrangle
Oak Peak Quadrangle
Omega Quadrangle
Paddys Hole Quadrangle
Pasture Canyon Quadrangle
Pelona Mountain Quadrangle
Pie Town Quadrangle
Pondersoa Tank Quadrangle
Quemado Quadrangle
Rael Spring Quadrangle
Rail Canyon Quadrangle
Red Flats Quadrangle
Red Hill Quadrangle
Salazar Canyon Quadrangle
Salvation Peak Quadrangle
Shaw Mountain Quadrangle
Spring Canyon Quadrangle
Sugarloaf Mountain Quadrangle
Taylor Peak Quadrangle
Techado Quadrangle
Tejana Mesa Quadrangle
Tejana Mesa SW Quadrangle
The Rincon Quadrangle
Third Canyon Quadrangle
Trail Lake Quadrangle
Tres Lagunas Quadrangle
Tullarosa Canyon Quadrangle
Twentytwo Spring Quadrangle
Veteado Mountain Quadrangle
Wahoo Peak Quadrangle
Wahoo Ranch Quadrangle
Wallace Mesa Quadrangle
Wild Horse Canyon Quadrangle
Wiley Mesa Quadrangle
York Ranch SE Quadrangle
Zuni Salt Lake Quadrangle
thesaurus name >
Title USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
purpose:
SSURGO depicts information about the kinds and distribution of soils on the landscape. The soil map and data used in the SSURGO product were prepared by soil scientists as part of the National Cooperative Soil Survey.
Resource language:  eng; USA
Resource progress code:  complete
Resource Maintenance Information
maintenance or update frequency:  asNeeded
Constraints on resource usage:
Legal Constraints
Access Constraints  otherRestrictions
use constraint:  otherRestrictions
Other constraints
Access Constraints: None. Use Constraints: The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, should be acknowledged as the data source in products derived from these data. This data set is not designed for use as a primary regulatory tool in permitting or citing decisions, but may be used as a reference source. This is public information and may be interpreted by organizations, agencies, units of government, or others based on needs; however, they are responsible for the appropriate application. Federal, State, or local regulatory bodies are not to reassign to the Natural Resources Conservation Service any authority for the decisions that they make. The Natural Resources Conservation Service will not perform any evaluations of these maps for purposes related solely to State or local regulatory programs. Photographic or digital enlargement of these maps to scales greater than at which they were originally mapped can cause misinterpretation of the data. If enlarged, maps do not show the small areas of contrasting soils that could have been shown at a larger scale. The depicted soil boundaries, interpretations, and analysis derived from them do not eliminate the need for onsite sampling, testing, and detailed study of specific sites for intensive uses. Thus, these data and their interpretations are intended for planning purposes only. Digital data files are periodically updated. Files are dated, and users are responsible for obtaining the latest version of the data.
Spatial representation type code:
Resource extent
Geographic Extent
Geographic Bounding Box
westBoundLongitude  -109.047
eastBoundLongitude  -107.712
northBoundLatitude  34.581
southBoundLatitude  33.462
Temporal Extent
publication date 2005-03-07 2013-12-22
Additional information on resource:
Digital versions of hydrography, cultural features, and other associated layers that are not part of the SSURGO data set may be available from the primary organization listed in the Point of Contact.
point of contact - pointOfContact
organisation Name  U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service
position Name State Soil Scientist
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 505-761-4433
Fax 505-761-4462
Address
6200 Jefferson, NESuite 305, Albuquerque, NM, 87109
electronic Mail Addressrichard.strait@nm.usda.gov
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reference system 1

Reference System Identifier
Identifier string: New Mexico
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reference system 2

Reference System Identifier
Identifier string: Unknown
authority
Title World Geodetic System 1984
revision  Date
cited responsible party - resourceProvider
Contact information
Linkage for online resource
URL:http://gstore.unm.edu
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reference system 3

Reference System Identifier
Identifier string: 4326
authority
Title World Geodetic System 1984
revision  Date
cited responsible party - resourceProvider
Contact information
Linkage for online resource
URL:http://www.epsg-registry.org/export.htm?gml=urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326
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Resource lineage description
Processing Step
date and time 2004-01-01T00:00:00
description The Catron County, New Mexico, Northern Part, New Mexico Soil Survey was published in 1985 at 1:48,000 scale. The classification and map unit names were finalized at the final correlation in 1984. An evaluation was made of the soil survey in 2003. It was determined that the soil map unit delineations were accurate. Water areas that are less than the acceptable minimum size delineation of 6 acres have been compiled with the appropriate symbol for perennial water. The changes were made to reflect present day soil survey concepts, soil classification, and soil interpretations. An amendment to the correlation document reflecting these changes are on file at the NRCS New Mexico State Office.
source
source citation
Title SCS1
Processing Step
date and time 2004-01-01T00:00:00
description The final publication negatives were used to develop ratioed soil survey film positives. Soil map unit and special soil features delineations were manually recompiled from the soil survey film positives (scale: 24,000) to 4 mil. annotated stable-base overlays that were registered to multiple 7.5 minute orthophotographs and composites.
source
source citation
Title USGS1
source
source citation
Title NRCS1
source
source citation
Title NRCS2
source
source citation
Title NRCS3
Processing Step
date and time 2004-01-01T00:00:00
description During the map compilation quality review an evaluation was made of the map unit joins for surrounding soil surveys by a soil data quality specialist.
source
source citation
Title USGS1
source
source citation
Title NRCS3
Processing Step
date and time 2005-01-01T00:00:00
description The annotated overlays were raster scanned on a SCANGRAPHICS CF 500 Scanner at a resolution of 300 dpi. The soil area features and special soil features were processed in LT4X Version 4.11. The soil processing consisted of raster editing, map neatline development, labeling, edge matching and vector conversion. The soil area features and special soil features were written to Digital Line Graph Optional format in LT4X. Digitizing and quality control were done by the geographic information system specialist and cartographic technicians at the Temple, Texas Digitizing and Certification Center.
source
source citation
Title NRCS3
Processing Step
date and time 2005-01-01T00:00:00
description The soil area features and special soil features DLGs were imported into ARC/INFO 7.2.1. The 7.5 minute quadrangles for each coverage were merged together into a soil survey area and additional editing was performed. The coverages were edge matched to existing SSURGO data. New DLGs reflecting these changes were written with ARC/INFO 7.2.1.
source
source citation
Title NRCS3
Processing Step
date and time 2005-01-01T00:00:00
description The soil area features and special soil features were reviewed by the Temple Texas Digitizing and Certification Center of the Natural Resources Conservation Service for adherence to SSURGO standards.
source
source citation
Title SCS1
source
source citation
Title NRCS3
Processing Step
date and time 2005-01-01T00:00:00
description The DLG-3 Optional format files were evaluated with the December 2003 ARC/INFO SSURGO Evaluation AMLs provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, National Cartography and Geospatial Center, Fort Worth, Texas. Upon successful completion of the SSURGO Evaluation, the DLGs were processed with the December 2003 archiving AMLs provided by the National Cartography and Geospatial Center, Fort Worth, Texas.
source
source citation
Title NRCS3
Processing Step
date and time 2005-01-01T00:00:00
description The National Soil Information System database was developed by the Natural Resources Conservation Service soil scientists according to national standards.
source
source citation
Title NRCS3
Processing Step
date and time 2005-03-11T00:00:00
description The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or delegate, upon completion of data quality verification, determined that the tabular data should be released for official use. A selected set of map units and components in the soil survey legend was copied to a staging database, and rating values for selected interpretations were generated. The list of selected interpretations is stored in the database table named sainterp.
source
source citation
Title NASIS
Processing Step
date and time 2005-03-11T00:00:00
description The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or delegate verified that the labels on the digitized soil map units link to map units in the tabular database, and certified the joined data sets for release to the Soil Data Warehouse. A system assigned version number and date stamp were added and the data were copied to the data warehouse. The tabular data for the map units and components were extracted from the data warehouse and reformatted into the soil data delivery data model, then stored in the Soil Data Mart. The spatial data were copied to the Soil Data Mart without change.
source
source citation
Title NASIS
Processing Step
date and time 2006-01-18T00:00:00
description The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or delegate, upon completion of data quality verification, determined that the tabular data should be released for official use. A selected set of map units and components in the soil survey legend was copied to a staging database, and rating values for selected interpretations were generated. The list of selected interpretations is stored in the database table named sainterp.
source
source citation
Title NASIS
Processing Step
date and time 2006-01-30T00:00:00
description The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or delegate verified that the labels on the digitized soil map units link to map units in the tabular database, and certified the joined data sets for release to the Soil Data Warehouse. A system assigned version number and date stamp were added and the data were copied to the data warehouse. The tabular data for the map units and components were extracted from the data warehouse and reformatted into the soil data delivery data model, then stored in the Soil Data Mart. The spatial data were copied to the Soil Data Mart without change. In this version of the NASIS attribute data, soil properties related to the hydric soil rating were updated and new tabular data and interpretations generated.
source
source citation
Title NASIS
Processing Step
date and time 2006-03-01T00:00:00
description The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or delegate, upon completion of data quality verification, determined that the tabular data should be released for official use. A selected set of map units and components in the soil survey legend was copied to a staging database, and rating values for selected interpretations were generated. The list of selected interpretations is stored in the database table named sainterp.
source
source citation
Title NASIS
Processing Step
date and time 2006-03-07T00:00:00
description The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or delegate verified that the labels on the digitized soil map units link to map units in the tabular database, and certified the joined data sets for release to the Soil Data Warehouse. A system assigned version number and date stamp were added and the data were copied to the data warehouse. The tabular data for the map units and components were extracted from the data warehouse and reformatted into the soil data delivery data model, then stored in the Soil Data Mart. The spatial data were copied to the Soil Data Mart without change.
source
source citation
Title NASIS
Processing Step
date and time 2006-06-29T00:00:00
description The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or delegate, upon completion of data quality verification, determined that the tabular data should be released for official use. A selected set of map units and components in the soil survey legend was copied to a staging database, and rating values for selected interpretations were generated. The list of selected interpretations is stored in the database table named sainterp.
source
source citation
Title NASIS
Processing Step
date and time 2006-07-19T00:00:00
description The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or delegate verified that the labels on the digitized soil map units link to map units in the tabular database, and certified the joined data sets for release to the Soil Data Warehouse. A system assigned version number and date stamp were added and the data were copied to the data warehouse. The tabular data for the map units and components were extracted from the data warehouse and reformatted into the soil data delivery data model, then stored in the Soil Data Mart. The spatial data were copied to the Soil Data Mart without change.
source
source citation
Title NASIS
Processing Step
date and time 2006-12-05T00:00:00
description The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or delegate, upon completion of data quality verification, determined that the tabular data should be released for official use. A selected set of map units and components in the soil survey legend was copied to a staging database, and rating values for selected interpretations were generated. The list of selected interpretations is stored in the database table named sainterp.
source
source citation
Title NASIS
Processing Step
date and time 2006-12-22T00:00:00
description The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or delegate verified that the labels on the digitized soil map units link to map units in the tabular database, and certified the joined data sets for release to the Soil Data Warehouse. A system assigned version number and date stamp were added and the data were copied to the data warehouse. The tabular data for the map units and components were extracted from the data warehouse and reformatted into the soil data delivery data model, then stored in the Soil Data Mart. The spatial data were copied to the Soil Data Mart without change.
source
source citation
Title NASIS
Processing Step
date and time 2008-10-29T00:00:00
description The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or delegate, upon completion of data quality verification, determined that the tabular data should be released for official use. A selected set of map units and components in the soil survey legend was copied to a staging database, and rating values for selected interpretations were generated. The list of selected interpretations is stored in the database table named sainterp.
source
source citation
Title NASIS
Processing Step
date and time 2008-11-07T00:00:00
description The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or delegate verified that the labels on the digitized soil map units link to map units in the tabular database, and certified the joined data sets for release to the Soil Data Warehouse. A system assigned version number and date stamp were added and the data were copied to the data warehouse. The tabular data for the map units and components were extracted from the data warehouse and reformatted into the soil data delivery data model, then stored in the Soil Data Mart. The spatial data were copied to the Soil Data Mart without change. This update of the tabular data correlates Ecological Site ID numbers to the ESIS name and numbering system, and includes additional soil interpretations for grazing land uses.
source
source citation
Title NASIS
Processing Step
date and time 2008-11-18T00:00:00
description The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or delegate, upon completion of data quality verification, determined that the tabular data should be released for official use. A selected set of map units and components in the soil survey legend was copied to a staging database, and rating values for selected interpretations were generated. The list of selected interpretations is stored in the database table named sainterp.
source
source citation
Title NASIS
Processing Step
date and time 2008-12-09T00:00:00
description The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or delegate verified that the labels on the digitized soil map units link to map units in the tabular database, and certified the joined data sets for release to the Soil Data Warehouse. A system assigned version number and date stamp were added and the data were copied to the data warehouse. The tabular data for the map units and components were extracted from the data warehouse and reformatted into the soil data delivery data model, then stored in the Soil Data Mart. The spatial data were copied to the Soil Data Mart without change. In this update of the tabular data, additional interpretative tables were generated and uploaded for several uses.
source
source citation
Title NASIS
Processing Step
date and time 2013-08-01T00:00:00
description The spatial data for the Soil Survey of Catron County, New Mexico, Northern Part was downloaded from the Soil Data Mart on October 15, 2012. The individual shapefiles were appended into a geodatabase for Region 8. The data were processed in ARCGIS 10.1 using a topology object with a 0.1 meter cluster tolerance for the purpose of eliminating gaps and overlaps within the Region 8 soils geodatabase. Individual soil survey area data were exported as shapefiles from the regional geodatabase. A datum transformation from NAD83 to WGS84 using the NAD_1983_To_WGS_1984_1 datum transformation method was applied to the data. The data were checked with the SSURGO Evaluation scripts provided by U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service. The shapefiles were then uploaded to the soil data warehouse for archival and distribution.
source
source citation
Title NRCS4
Processing Step
date and time 2013-12-22T00:00:00
description The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or delegate, upon completion of data quality verification, determined that the tabular data should be released for official use. A selected set of map units and components in the soil survey legend was copied to a staging database, and rating values for selected interpretations were generated. The list of selected interpretations is stored in the database table named sainterp.
source
source citation
Title NASIS
Processing Step
date and time 2013-12-22T00:00:00
description The Natural Resources Conservation Service State Soil Scientist or delegate verified that the labels on the digitized soil map units link to map units in the tabular database, and certified the joined data sets for release to the Soil Data Warehouse. A system assigned version number and date stamp were added and the data were copied to the data warehouse. The tabular data for the map units and components were extracted from the data warehouse and reformatted into the soil data delivery data model, then stored in the Soil Data Mart. The spatial data were copied to the Soil Data Mart without change.
source
source citation
Title NASIS
source
source description  source of soil map unit delineations and soil symbols
representative resolution scale:
Scale denominator: 48000
source citation
Title Soil Survey of Catron County, New Mexico, Northern Part
alternateTitle  SCS1
publication  Date   1985-01-01T00:00:00
cited responsible party - resourceProvider
organisation Name  U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service
Resource extent
Temporal Extent
publication date 1985-01-01
source
source description  final publication negatives used to develop ratioed soil survey film positives
representative resolution scale:
Scale denominator: 48000
source citation
Title publication annotation overlays
alternateTitle  NRCS1
cited responsible party - resourceProvider
organisation Name  U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service
Resource extent
Temporal Extent
2004 2004-01-01
source
source description  final publication negatives used to develop ratioed soil survey film positives
representative resolution scale:
Scale denominator: 31680
source citation
Title publication annotation overlays
alternateTitle  NRCS2
cited responsible party - resourceProvider
organisation Name  U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service
Resource extent
Temporal Extent
2004 2004-01-01
source
source description  compilation base
representative resolution scale:
Scale denominator: 24000
source citation
Title multiple 7.5 minute orthophotographs and composites 1991 - 1998
alternateTitle  USGS1
publication  Date   1998-01-01T00:00:00
cited responsible party - resourceProvider
organisation Name  U.S. Geological Survey
Resource extent
Temporal Extent
publication date 2004-01-01
source
source description  source material for scanning
representative resolution scale:
Scale denominator: 24000
source citation
Title annotated overlays
alternateTitle  NRCS3
cited responsible party - resourceProvider
organisation Name  U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service
Resource extent
Temporal Extent
2005 2005-01-01
source
source description  attribute (tabular) information
representative resolution scale:
Scale denominator:
source citation
Title National Soil Information System (NASIS) data base
alternateTitle  NASIS
publication  Date   2005-01-01T00:00:00
cited responsible party - resourceProvider
organisation Name  U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service
Resource extent
Temporal Extent
publication date 2005-01-01 2005-01-01
source
source description  Source of digital revision
representative resolution scale:
Scale denominator:
source citation
Title Region 8 soils geodatabase
alternateTitle  NRCS4
cited responsible party - resourceProvider
organisation Name  U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service
Resource extent
Temporal Extent
SSURGO publication date 2006-01-01 2012-01-01
Completeness Commission
ConceptualConsistency
measure Description  Certain node/geometry and topology GT-polygon/chain relationships are collected or generated to satisfy topological requirements (the GT-polygon corresponds to the soil delineation). Some of these requirements include: chains must begin and end at nodes, chains must connect to each other at nodes, chains do not extend through nodes, left and right GT-polygons are defined for each chain element and are consistent throughout, and the chains representing the limits of the file are free of gaps. The tests of logical consistency are performed using vendor software. All internal polygons are tested for closure with vendor software and are checked on hard copy plots. All data are checked for common soil lines (i.e., adjacent polygons with the same label). Edge locations generally do not deviate from centerline to centerline by more than 0.01 inch. The feature edges, descriptive attributes, and the feature labels of the quadrangles in the Catron County, New Mexico, Northern Part, Soil Survey do not match with the adjacent quadrangles in the Apache County, Arizona, Central Part, and the Cibola Area, New Mexico Parts of Cibola, McKinley and Valencia Counties, Soil Survey. The feature edges and descriptive attributes in the Catron County, New Mexico, Northern Part, Soil Survey match with the quadrangles in the adjacent Sierra County Area, New Mexico Soil Survey. The feature labels do not match.

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Distributor
distributor contact - distributor
organisation Name  Earth Data Analysis Center
position Name Clearinghouse Manager
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 505-277-3622 ext. 230
Fax 505-277-3614
Address
MSC01 11101 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 87131-0001 Country USA
electronic Mail Addressclearinghouse@edac.unm.edu
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fees None. The files are available to download from Resource Geographic Information System (RGIS) (http://rgis.unm.edu).
Ordering Instructions  Contact Earth Data Analysis Center at clearinghouse@edac.unm.edu
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Linkage for online resource
URL:http://gstore.unm.edu/apps/rgis/datasets/db270915-9b83-4283-bbe5-1ddeece13682/soil_nm648_2013.original.zip
Metadata data stamp:  2014-06-16
Resource Maintenance Information
maintenance or update frequency:
Metadata contact - pointOfContact
organisation Name  U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service
position Name State Soil Scientist
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 505-761-4433
Fax 505-761-4462
Address
6200 Jefferson, NESuite 305, Albuquerque, NM, 87109
electronic Mail Addressrichard.strait@nm.usda.gov
Metadata scope code  dataset
Metadata language  eng; USA
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