Lakeland soil and landscape
Soil profile: Profile of Lakeland sand. Lakeland soils are very deep, are excessively drained, and formed in thick beds of sands. The thickness of the sand exceeds 80 inches. Lakeland soils are in nearly level to steep areas of the Coastal Plain uplands and on side slopes. (Soil Survey of Washington County, Florida; by Milton Martinez, Natural Resources Conservation Service)
Landscape: A paved road in an area of Lakeland sand, 8 to 12 percent slopes. Loamy fill is needed from an offsite location before paving in areas of the Lakeland soils. This map unit is not suited to cultivated crops because it is too droughty. It is very limited as a site for recreational
development because it is too sandy.
Lakeland soils formed in thick beds of eolian or marine and/or fluvio-marine sands in the Southern Coastal Plain MLRA (133A), the Carolina and Georgia Sandhills (MLRA 137), the Eastern Gulf Coast Flatwoods (MLRA 152A) and the Atlantic Coast Flatwoods (MLRA 153A).Near the type location, the mean annual temperature is about 67 degrees F., and the mean annual precipitation is about 52 inches. Slopes are dominantly from 0 to 12 percent but can range to 85 percent in dissected areas.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Thermic, coated Typic Quartzipsamments
Thickness of the sand exceeds 80 inches. Silt plus clay in the 10 to 40-inch control section ranges from 5 to 10 percent. Reaction ranges from very strongly acid to moderately acid throughout except where the surface has been limed.
USE AND VEGETATION: Many areas are cleared and used for peanuts, watermelons, peaches, corn, tobacco, and improved pasture. The natural vegetation consists of blackjack oak, turkey oak, post oak; scattered long leaf pine with an understory of creeping bluestem, sandy bluestem, lopsided indiangrass, hairy panicum, fringeleaf paspalum, and native annual forbs.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain and sand hills of the thermic belt from Mississippi to Virginia. The series is of large extent.
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/florida/washin...
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/L/LAKELAND.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#lakeland
Lakeland soil and landscape
Soil profile: Profile of Lakeland sand. Lakeland soils are very deep, are excessively drained, and formed in thick beds of sands. The thickness of the sand exceeds 80 inches. Lakeland soils are in nearly level to steep areas of the Coastal Plain uplands and on side slopes. (Soil Survey of Washington County, Florida; by Milton Martinez, Natural Resources Conservation Service)
Landscape: A paved road in an area of Lakeland sand, 8 to 12 percent slopes. Loamy fill is needed from an offsite location before paving in areas of the Lakeland soils. This map unit is not suited to cultivated crops because it is too droughty. It is very limited as a site for recreational
development because it is too sandy.
Lakeland soils formed in thick beds of eolian or marine and/or fluvio-marine sands in the Southern Coastal Plain MLRA (133A), the Carolina and Georgia Sandhills (MLRA 137), the Eastern Gulf Coast Flatwoods (MLRA 152A) and the Atlantic Coast Flatwoods (MLRA 153A).Near the type location, the mean annual temperature is about 67 degrees F., and the mean annual precipitation is about 52 inches. Slopes are dominantly from 0 to 12 percent but can range to 85 percent in dissected areas.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Thermic, coated Typic Quartzipsamments
Thickness of the sand exceeds 80 inches. Silt plus clay in the 10 to 40-inch control section ranges from 5 to 10 percent. Reaction ranges from very strongly acid to moderately acid throughout except where the surface has been limed.
USE AND VEGETATION: Many areas are cleared and used for peanuts, watermelons, peaches, corn, tobacco, and improved pasture. The natural vegetation consists of blackjack oak, turkey oak, post oak; scattered long leaf pine with an understory of creeping bluestem, sandy bluestem, lopsided indiangrass, hairy panicum, fringeleaf paspalum, and native annual forbs.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain and sand hills of the thermic belt from Mississippi to Virginia. The series is of large extent.
For additional information about the survey area, visit:
www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/florida/washin...
For a detailed soil description, visit:
soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/L/LAKELAND.html
For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:
casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#lakeland