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Hydric Soil List by State

This scripts retrieves by State a list of soils that have a hydric rating of "yes".


Text highlighted in yellow in the example script can be changed for a particular area, e.g. 'MO123' can be substituted for 'NE109'. Also, you can use wildcards to get the entire State e.g., 'MO%' will extract the state of Missouri. More examples can be found on the Tips page.

Tips Page

Copy the example script below and paste it into the query page on the Soil Data Access site.

Soil Data Access Query Page

Example Script

SELECT DISTINCT Compname AS Component_name

FROM legend AS l

INNER JOIN mapunit AS m ON l.lkey = m.lkey

LEFT OUTER JOIN component AS c ON m.mukey = c.mukey

WHERE hydricrating = 'yes' AND LEFT(l.areasymbol,2) LIKE 'WI'

GROUP BY Compname

ORDER BY Compname

Example Table Output

Description of tables and columns can be found on this link: Table and Column Descriptions

Component_name
Ackmore
Adder
Adrain



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