Soil Surveys at Pendergrass Library

See our list of Tennessee Soil Surveys by County for holdings at Pendergrass Library.
State Soil surveys are catalogued and shelved in the AgVet Library in three main classes. See chart below. If you need assistance please ask one of the AgVet Library staff.

Years	Call number	Cataloged by	Shelved by
1800-1922	S591.A2	year	year -report
1923-1937	S591.A22	year	no.- year
1938-1966	S591.A22	year - part	county -state
1967-date	S599.01.T3 or T37	year - part and state - county	county - state
Islands - all dates	S599.08	n/a	n/a

Where bound separately (usually years 1938- ), the soil surveys are not shelved according to their call number cutter (which includes a year designation). Instead, they are shelved within the call number in alphabetic order by State, and within state by County. In searching for bound volumes, remember that the date the soil survey was issued is not always the same as the date that is used on the spine of the bound volume.

It is not always possible to determine from the online catalog whether a survey has been completed for a particular county/state. Instead, check the NRCS List of Printed Soil Surveys by State for an updated list. Not all counties have completed survey projects and so will not yet have published soil surveys. Ask for help if you do not find what you need.

A recent development is the publishing of soil surveys, geospatial data, and maps online. As of August 2007, 14 Tennessee counties have their most recent soil surveys online - Cannon (2003), Carter (2004), Clay (2004), Cumberland (2002), Grainger (2000), Jackson (2004), Jefferson (2000), Johnson (2005), Marshall (2005), Moore (2006), Perry (2006), Rhea (2005), and Scott County Area (2006.) [In addition, digital geographic data for Knox County, TN, can be found at KGIS.org.]

April, 2009