Information on New Hampshire Soils

Reading and assessing the land is the first step in solving natural resource problems and sustaining our limited resources.  In particular, soils provide the foundation for conservation work, and understanding the nature and properties of soils is critical to managing and conserving other natural resources.

The New Hampshire Soils Program is a diverse and customer-sensitive program that strives to set a national example while serving the soil information needs of New Hampshire communities.

• County Soil Survey Data 
• The Soil Survey Program in New Hampshire
• Availability of Soil Survey Information in New Hampshire
• The New Hampshire State Soil
• The New Hampshire Soil Tunnel
• Mascoma Headwaters Project
• Web Soil Survey (Soil Data and Maps)
• Soil Data Mart (Soil Data and Maps)

NH Statewide Numerical Soil Legend, Issue #8 - November 2007. All require Adobe Acrobat.

New Hampshire Statewide Numerical Soil Legend - Narrative (1.5 MB)
NH Statewide Numerical Soil Legend Listed by Map Unit Number (53.1 KB)
Conversion Legend of Soils in NH per Published Soils Survey (76.1 KB)
Table of Properties and Interpretations of NH Soil Map Units (79.1 KB)
Key to the Soils of New Hampshire (38.8 KB)
 

Requires Adobe Acrobat.

Ksat Values of subsoil and substratum materials for the NH State-Wide Numerical Soil Legend Map Units (26 KB pdf)

The following soil documents are available for download.  All require Adobe Acrobat.

Soil Survey of Grafton County Area, New Hampshire (1.7 MB)
Status Map of Soil Surveys in NH (284 KB)

The Site Specific Soil Mapping Standards for New Hampshire and Vermont may be found at the Society of Soil Scientists of Northern New England website:

http://www.sssnne.org/nh-vt.pdf