Soils of Rhode Island

Inceptisols — young soils with weakly developed horizons

The state soil, Narragansett, ranks 15th of 66 series here on 12,842 acres. First place goes to Canton, an Inceptisol covering 15.3% of the state’s mapped soil. Inceptisols make up more than two thirds of the mapped soil (80.8%). Only one of the 52 states and territories here maps fewer series than its 66.

Atlas series mapped in Rhode IslandGuide: state soils and where series began