Soils of North Carolina

Ultisols — strongly weathered, leached soils with a clay-enriched subsoil

The state soil, Cecil, ranks 2nd of 488 series here on 864,662 acres. First place goes to Fairview, an Ultisol covering 3.1% of the state’s mapped soil. Ultisols make up more than two thirds of the mapped soil (67.4%).

Atlas series mapped in North CarolinaGuide: state soils and where series began