Summary of Soil Orders found in Iowa Compiled from ISPAID ...

Summary of Soil Orders found in Iowa Compiled from ISPAID, November 2013

Order Alfisols Entisols Histosols Inceptisols Mollisols Vertisols Other Urban Land

Acres 7367180 2479573 72822 921112 24348921 2385 600746 159699

% of Total Acres 20.49% 6.90% 0.20% 2.56% 67.73% 0.01% 1.67% 0.44%

Sum

35952438

100.00%

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Other category includes Alluvial Land, Animal Waste, Borrow Pits, Fill Land, Gravel Pits, Made Land, Marsh, Mines and Strip Mines, Muck, Sanitary Landfill or Highway Orthents, Quarries, Riverwash, Rock Outcrop, Sewage Lagoons, Steep Rock Land, and Water.

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All complexes are sorted according to the classification of the series listed first. Any complex including Alluvial Land, Gullied Land, or Rock Outcrop is grouped in the Other category.

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Any complex containing Urban Land is grouped in the Urban Land category rather than the dominant soil order.