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SOIL SURVEY OF JACKSON COUNTY 
been classified as the Plainfield series. The types mapped are 
Plainfield sandy loam, sand, and fine sand. 
Throughout the eastern portion of the county are numerous 
areas of marsh border soil which are dark-colored, low-lying, 
and naturally poorly drained, and where the soils are of a sandy 
nature, partly residual and partly alluvial, and aways acid. 
These soils are placed in the Dunning series, and have been 
classed as Dunning sand. 
The first bottom light-colored soils subject to annual flooding 
have been classified as Genesse, and the types silt loam, fine sandy 
loam, and fine sand were mapped. Extensive areas of peat were 
also mapped, and this consists of decaying vegetable matter in 
various stages of decomposition, with which there is mixed a 
small amount of fine earth, but seldom enough to permit the 
use of the term Muck. 
The following table shows the actual and relative extent of 
each soil type, and in the following pages of this report each type 
is fully described. 
Areas of Different Soils 
Soil 
Boone fine sand_ 
Level phase_ 
Poorly drained phase.. 
Knox silt loam_ 
Steep phase_ 
Peat ___ 
Shallow phase_ 
Boone fine sandy loam_ 
Rough stony land_ 
Vesper fine sandy loam... 
Dunning sand- 
Plainfield sand- 
Acres 
Per cent 
Soil 
Acres 
Per cent 
111,744 
] 
Boone loam_ 
22,400 
3.5 
14,656 
\ 20.1 
Plainfield fine sand_ 
18,880 
2.9 
2,176 
1 
Wabash silt loam_ 
7,808 
1.2 
73,920 
i 18.9 
Wabash loam_ 
7,488 
1.2 
47,296 
Genesee silt loam_ 
7,296 
1.1 
89,536 
15.7 
Vesper silt loam_ 
4,800 
.8 
10,752 
$ 
Genesee fine sandy loam 
3,072 
.5 
54,400 
8.5 
Bates silt loam_ 
2,624 
.4 
42,496 
6.6 
Lintonia silt loam_ 
2,368 
.4 
40,000 
6.2 
Vesper sandy loam- 
2,308 
.4 
37,888 
5.9 
Plainfield sandy loam.. 
1,536 
.2 
35,136 
5.5 
Total_ 
640,640 
