Aaron Spence Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources GIS Specialist 651-757-2655 520 Lafayette Road St. Paul MN 55155 aaron.spence@state.mn.us 20240315 geos_usfs_histosols 2024-03-15 US Forest Service MN Board of Water & Soil Resources This layer shows the histosol percentage at 10 meter resolution for the continental United States as derived from the current gSSURGO/SSURGO databases from NRCS. Values range from 10 to 100 percent. Histosols (minus folists for this dataset) have a high content of organic matter and no permafrost. Most are saturated year round, but a few are freely drained. Histosols are commonly called bogs, moors, peats, or mucks. SSURGO based raster layer for identifying areas containing histosols. Credits  USDA NRCS Soil Survey Center, Lincoln, NE and USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station Kevin McCullough US Forest Service Geographer 608-231-9564 1 Gifford Pinchot Dr Madison WI 53726 kevin.mccullough@usda.gov Minnesota SSURGO, GSSURGO, Histosol, soil, crop cover, cropland, agriculture, land cover, crop estimates, Landsat, CroplandCROS, CropScape SSURGO GSSURGO Histosol soil crop cover cropland agriculture land cover crop estimates Landsat CroplandCROS CropScape Minnesota true -97.23 -89.53 49.37 43.5 Most current SSURGO data as of publication date. 2024-03-15 Minnesota Derived from the current gSSURGO/SSURGO databases from NRCS. Values range from 10 to 100 percent. Histosols (minus folists for this dataset) have a high content of organic matter and no permafrost. Most are saturated year round, but a few are freely drained. Histosols are commonly called bogs, moors, peats, or mucks. 1.0