Issued February 19, 1910. 



United States Department of Agriculture, 



BUREAU OF SOILS CIRCULAR No. 21. 

 MILTON WHITNEY, Chief. 



SOILS IN THE VICINITY OF BRUNSWICK, GA.: A PRELIMINARY 



REPORT. 



GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE AREA. 



In order to determine the character of the soils in the vicinity of 

 Brunswick, Glynn County, Ga., and to ascertain their crop adapta- 

 tions and capabilities a preliminary survey was made of a consider- 

 able territory about that city in October, 1909. No attempt was 

 made to map any of the different areas of soil, owing to lack of time 

 and to the fact that such work lies within the province of the detailed 

 soil survey, by which the location and extent of the different grades 

 of land are shown on a carefully prepared map. It is hoped that a 

 complete or detailed survey of the whole of the county can be made 

 in the near future. In the meantime the descriptions of the several 

 soils given in this circular will be valuable as a guide in identifying 

 the important soils of the county and will go far, it is believed, in di- 

 recting proper utilization of the soils. 



Glynn County is situated in the southeastern part of the State, 

 entirely within the Atlantic Coastal Plain. It has a water frontage 

 of about 20 miles along the Atlantic Ocean and an inland extent of 

 approximately 38 miles. Brunswick, the county seat, is about 57 

 miles nearly due north from Jacksonville, Fla., and 69 miles a little 

 west of south from Savannah, Ga. The area of the county is 468 

 square miles, or 299,520 acres. 



Topographically the mainland portion of Glynn County is a plain 

 of marked evenness, the surface being interrupted only by slight 

 hummocks with intervening shallow depressions, occasional very low 

 sand ridges, and streamway depressions, which in a generalized view 

 hardly affect the flat appearance of the whole country. 



Carefully determined altitudes above sea level show but slight 

 variation in the surface elevation of the county. In different parts 

 of Brunswick the elevation varies from 7 to about 15 feet; at Ster- 



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