Soils of New Jersey
247 soil series mapped on 4.00 million acres
Ultisols — strongly weathered, leached soils with a clay-enriched subsoil
New Jersey’s state soil, Downer, is also its most extensive series, with 254,841 acres (6.4% of the mapped soil). No order holds a majority; Ultisols lead with 42.0%, ahead of Entisols at 16.3%.
Atlas series mapped in New JerseyGuide: state soils and where series began