Create HRUs: Trouble with loading soil data

[Mahima Q]

Hello,

I am on the step of uploading soil data for creating HRUs. I have projected the soil data in the right coordinate system and unprojected Geographic Coordinates (WGS 1984). They load onto ArcGIS Pro fine but the .shp files do not show up in ArcSWAT. Not sure where to go from here 

Thank you!

[Chris George]

STATSGO soils files come as shapefiles, as you can see in your second
picture: files ending in .shp. ArcSWAT is looking for a raster: see the
filter announced bottom right: "Rasters (All Local Types)". You need to
convert your shapefile to raster. There is a document
https://swat.tamu.edu/media/116594/us_soilsv3.pdf on doing this for
SSURGO files, which have a similar problem, with QGIS but there should
be similar tools for ArcGIS. STATSGO is different from SSURGO, but this
should help you get started.

Chris

On 6/8/2026 4:51 PM, Mahima Q wrote:
> Hello, I am on the step of uploading soil data for creating HRUs. I have
> projected the soil data in the right coordinate system and unprojected
> Geographic Coordinates (WGS 1984). They load onto ArcGIS Pro fine but
> the .shp files do not show

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