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Virginia Farm Field Explorer

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Drought (U.S. Drought Monitor)

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Grain buyers limited data Livestock auctions Farmers markets Meat & poultry processors

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County lines are always on (U.S. Census TIGER/Line, full detail).

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Fields and crop history: USDA NASS Crop Sequence Boundaries 2018–2025 (rev23, released Mar 27, 2026) and USDA NASS Cropland Data Layer (CropScape), crop years 2016–2025.
Soils: Soil Survey Staff, NRCS, USDA. Soil Survey Geographic (SSURGO) Database, all 108 Virginia survey areas, and Soil Data Access (queried Sept 26, 2026).
Slope: U.S. Geological Survey, 3D Elevation Program 1 arc-second DEM.
Flood zones: FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer, Virginia extract of Sept 24, 2026.
Drought: U.S. Drought Monitor, jointly produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the USDA and NOAA. Map courtesy of NDMC. Map date: see legend.
Markets: USDA AMS Local Food Directories (farmers markets); USDA AMS Packers and Stockyards Division (livestock markets in neighbouring states); Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (livestock auctions) and Virginia Grown, VDACS; USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (processors); Virginia Cooperative Extension (Augusta Co. grain dealer list); © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Roads and drive times: drive-time estimates by Apogee Geospatial on © OpenStreetMap contributors road data (ODbL), via Geofabrik extracts, data to Sept 25, 2026.
Boundaries and places: U.S. Census Bureau, TIGER/Line Shapefiles 2025 (full-detail county lines) and Gazetteer Files (town positions for some market listings); two market towns located with Nominatim, © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Basemaps: Esri Light Gray Canvas (default), Dark Gray Canvas, World Imagery and World Topographic Map. Canvas and labels: Esri, HERE, Garmin, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS user community. Imagery: Source: Esri, Vantor, Earthstar Geographics, and the GIS User Community. Topographic: Esri and its data partners, as credited in the map attribution.
Search: Search by Esri (ArcGIS World Geocoding Service). Fallback: Nominatim, © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Software: MapLibre GL JS, PMTiles, topojson-client.

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Crop history is classified from satellite imagery. Soil ratings come from soil survey maps, not field tests. Drive times are estimates to the nearest point in this dataset, and grain buyers are limited data. Field outlines are NASS’s generalized fields, not legal parcels. See .

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About the data

What the map shows

– farm fields covering – acres in – of Virginia’s 133 counties and independent cities, from USDA NASS Crop Sequence Boundaries. Click a field for its crop history (2016–2025), soils, slope, FEMA flood-zone share, county drought status and estimated drive times to the nearest grain buyer, livestock auction, farmers market and meat or poultry processor. Below zoom 10 the map shows county summaries.

Field outlines are smoothed for display; acreage, the field card and all downloads use NASS’s original field geometry. County lines are drawn from full-detail TIGER/Line files and are never simplified.

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Fields are areas NASS mapped as cropland, hay or pasture in 2018–2025. They are generalized from satellite data and are not legal parcels or FSA farm units. Small or recently converted fields can be missing, and seven urban counties and cities have no fields.
Crop history is classified from satellite imagery. Corn and soybeans are usually reliable; hay versus pasture, small grains, double crops and minor crops much less so. 2018–2025 are NASS’s field records; 2016–2017 are the majority crop class inside each field (this build).
2024–2025 use a new NASS method. USDA changed its crop-mapping method in 2024; hay vs. pasture labels are not comparable with earlier years, and row-crop acres also stepped down. Change figures on this map are headlined for 2016–2023, which used one method throughout.
Soils (farmland class, NCCPI productivity, drainage, capability class) are soil-survey map-unit ratings, not field measurements or yields.
Flood shares use FEMA’s regulatory 1%-annual-chance zones (including coastal V zones). Study ages vary widely by county. It is not a flood forecast.
Drought is the weekly U.S. Drought Monitor at county scale, not field conditions. Map date: –.
Drive times are estimates on OpenStreetMap roads at typical speeds with no traffic, to the nearest point in this dataset. Grain buyers are limited data: no public statewide list of licensed grain dealers or elevators was found, so only known buyers are mapped (– points), and grain drive times are likely overstated. Farmers market listings are self-reported and may be out of date; processors are federally inspected slaughter plants only.

Downloads

All field attributes (CSV, gzip, 12.7 MB)
County summary (CSV)
Market points (CSV)

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