Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><P><SPAN>The Iowa Cooperative Soil Survey (ICSS) is a partnership begun in 1966 of the Iowa Cooperative Extension Service and the Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station at Iowa State University, the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, Division of Soil Conservation, and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. The general purpose of the ICSS is to coordinate the collection, compilation, interpretation, publication, dissemination, and use of soil surveys in Iowa. In 1987 a cooperative agreement was signed among the agencies to begin work on digitizing soil maps in the state. This web site was developed to provide a means of downloading the completed soil map data for use in Geographic Information System applications. This web site was developed and is maintained by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service in Ames, Iowa.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>