Soil Series Atlas

Histosols

Organic soils: peat and muck

Soil order · 343 established series in the classification database

Histosols cover 30.60 million acres of mapped U.S. soils — 1.9% of all series acres, the 9th largest of the twelve orders — across 358 mapped series.

Official descriptions of Histosols go down a median 155 cm.

Histosols among the twelve orders

Share of all acres mapped to a named series, with this order highlighted.

Mollisols 27.3% · Alfisols 17.3% · Entisols 12.3% · Ultisols 11.8% · Inceptisols 11.4% · Aridisols 9.7% · Spodosols 3.7% · Vertisols 2.7% · Histosols 1.9% · Andisols 1.3% · Gelisols 0.5% · Oxisols <0.1%

Guide: The twelve soil orders, measured

Largest Histosols series

Mapped acres in current SSURGO data, across all series in the order.

  1. Cathro1,879,542 acres1.9 M
  2. Greenwood1,451,282 acres1.5 M
  3. Lupton1,362,743 acres1.4 M
  4. Rifle1,072,274 acres1.1 M
  5. Houghton1,069,279 acres1.1 M
  6. Seelyeville1,035,416 acres1.0 M
  7. Markey844,608 acres845 k
  8. Dorovan727,902 acres728 k
  9. Tawas704,926 acres705 k
  10. Loxley579,653 acres580 k

Histosols on this site

No Histosols series are profiled here yet; the largest are listed above.