Soils, wetlands, and terrain of the Beaver Island archipelago

Map

Eras: Modern era
Concepts: soilswetlandshydrologygeologycartographyenvironment
Within: Beaver Island archipelago

Map: Soils, wetlands, and terrain of the Beaver Island archipelago. — Soils, wetlands, and terrain of the Beaver Island archipelagoDrawn from the archive's own data in EPSG:3078. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); SSURGO soils, USFWS National Wetlands Inventory, Michigan EGLE hydric soils, USGS 3DEP, and National Hydrography Dataset (public domain). · CC BY 4.0 for the drawing; underlying data under its own terms (see credit)

Reading the plate

This overview is the environmental atlas entry point. Soil fills are SSURGO map units; blue NWI and dashed green EGLE hydric-soil boundaries are intentionally separate source layers. Hillshade supplies relief context only. None of these layers establishes a parcel condition, wetland delineation, legal boundary, or field observation.

See the Wetlands, inland waters, and hydrology and Geology and landforms for source limits, the Island-scale SSURGO soil crosswalk for the Beaver archipelago for the island-level join, and the Atlas environmental subpages for local sheets.

Sources

Project environmental-atlas renderer.
Draws the plate in EPSG:3078 using the shared cartographic tokens. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
scripts · make_environmental_atlas
USDA NRCS SSURGO map-unit polygon extracts for MI029 and MI089.
Map-unit fill context; not a parcel or field determination.
soils · ssurgo_mapunit_polygons
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Wetlands Inventory and Michigan EGLE hydric-soil layers.
The two wetland-related sources are separately symbolized rather than merged.
federal · layers · nwi_wetlands
USGS 3DEP and National Hydrography Dataset.
Hillshade and flowline context.
federal · usgs_3dep · dem_13_arcsecond · USGS_13_n46w086

Added 3 August 2026 · revised 4 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Soils, wetlands, and terrain of the Beaver Island archipelago”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/map/atlas-archipelago-environment/, accessed [date], citing Project environmental-atlas renderer. (and 3 further sources listed on the page).

Last revised 2026-08-04. Fill in [date] with the date you read it — this page is static and cannot know that.

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