With increased industrialization of the confined livestock feeding industry come ever larger stocks of manure. Yet the likelihood of soil nutrient toxicity and ground and surface water contamination is minimal if sufficient crop acreage is available to assimilate manure nutrients. The inverse of the proportion of crop acreage times the proportion of acreage suitable for manure applications is used as an index of suitability. Using USGS land use/land coding maps and digital elevation maps, levels of suitability are determined for western Kentucky. This information when used in a GIS framework helps guide the siting of livestock feeding facilities.