This article will highlight various uses for historical soil survey publications of the United States, discuss their management in libraries, and introduce an inventory to simplify their discovery. This inventory, provided as freely available supplementary material to this article, is a searchable list of publications organized by state. It can be adapted to the needs of individual libraries.
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