Dukes County Soil Survey

Soils of Dukes County per the USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service. Survey data from 2003 (version date 2018-01-25). Data compiled via Soil Data Viewer. The Soil Data Viewer tool was used to generate the classification of Soil Type and Farmland Soil Classifications. The 3 letter codes utilized in earlier soil data reports has been joined to the Soil Type layer via the MUSYM field. The Martha's Vineyard Commission used these data to extract the Prime Agricultural Soils which are used in the MVC's DRI (Development of Regional Impact) Checklist v14 Map B-4. For more details about the Dukes County Soil Survey, visit the NRCS Web Soil Survey website. To learn the distinctions of of the 3 Farmland Soil Classifications, please read this info from the USDA. The 1986 publication of the Dukes County Soil Survey. NOTE: MassGIS does have more recent compilation of the NRCS soil data (downloaded June 2020; publ Nov. 2021). The MVC has not completed a comparison of these two datasets but anticipates the differences to be minimal. Also, given the use of the 2018 version in the MVC's DRI Checklist, for historic purposes, it is important to have this version available to the public.