List of U.S. state soils

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This is a list of U.S. state soils. A state soil is a soil that has special significance to a particular state. Each state in the United States has selected a state soil, twenty of which have been legislatively established. These official state soils share the same level of distinction as official state flowers and birds. Also, representative soils have been selected for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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State federal district or territory	State soil	Image	Year adopted as official state symbol (if any)
Alabama	Bama		1997
Alaska	Tanana
Arizona	Casa Grande
Arkansas	Stuttgart		1997
California	San Joaquin		1997
Colorado	Seitz
Connecticut	Windsor		proposed
Delaware	Greenwich		2000
Florida	Myakka		1989
Georgia	Tifton
Hawaii	Hilo
Idaho	Threebear
Illinois	Drummer		2001
Indiana	Miami
Iowa	Tama
Kansas	Harney		1990
Kentucky	Crider		1990
Louisiana	Ruston
Maine	Chesuncook (soil)		1999
Maryland	Sassafras
Massachusetts	Paxton		1990
Michigan	Kalkaska		1990
Minnesota	Lester		2012
Mississippi	Natchez		2003
Missouri	Menfro
Montana	Scobey	Scobey Soil profile	2015
Nebraska	Holdrege (soil)		1979
Nevada	Orovada		2001
New Hampshire	Marlow
New Jersey	Downer
New Mexico	Penistaja
New York	Honeoye
North Carolina	Cecil
North Dakota	Williams
Ohio	Miamian
Oklahoma	Port Silt Loam		1987
Oregon	Jory		2011
Pennsylvania	Hazleton (soil)
Puerto Rico	Bayamon
Rhode Island	Narragansett
South Carolina	Bohicket
South Dakota	Houdek		1990
Tennessee	Dickson
Texas	Houston Black
Utah	Mivida
Vermont	Tunbridge		1985
Virgin Islands	Victory
Virginia	Pamunkey
Washington	Tokul		proposed
West Virginia	Monongahela		1997
Wisconsin	Antigo		1983
Wyoming	Forkwood

Soil classification
World Reference Base for Soil Resources (1998–)	Acrisols Alisols Andosols Anthrosols Arenosols Calcisols Cambisols Chernozem Cryosols Durisols Ferralsols Fluvisols Gleysols Gypsisols Histosol Kastanozems Leptosols Lixisols Luvisols Nitisols Phaeozems Planosols Plinthosols Podzols Regosols Retisols Solonchaks Solonetz Stagnosol Technosols Umbrisols Vertisols
USDA soil taxonomy	Alfisols Andisols Aridisols Entisols Gelisols Histosols Inceptisols Mollisols Oxisols Spodosols Ultisols Vertisols
Other systems	FAO soil classification (1974–1998) Unified Soil Classification System AASHTO Soil Classification System Référentiel pédologique (French classification system) Canadian system of soil classification Australian Soil Classification Polish Soil Classification 1938 USDA soil taxonomy List of U.S. state soils List of vineyard soil types PG-3 (Spanish classification system)
Non-systematic soil types	Sand Silt Clay Loam Topsoil Subsoil Soil crust Claypan Hardpan Gypcrust Caliche Parent material Pedosphere Laimosphere Rhizosphere Bulk soil Alkali soil Bay mud Blue goo Brickearth Brown earth Calcareous grassland Dark earth Dry quicksand Duplex soil Eluvium Expansive clay Fill dirt Fuller's earth Hydrophobic soil Loess Mud Muskeg Paleosol Peat Prime farmland Quicksand Serpentine soil Spodic soil Stagnogley Subaqueous soil Takir Terra preta Terra rossa Tropical peat Yedoma
Soil on bodies other than Earth	Lunar regolith Martian regolith
Types of soil

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Territories and the federal district	American Samoa District of Columbia Guam Northern Mariana Islands Puerto Rico U.S. Virgin Islands
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