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Lakeland soil series

Lakeland soils cover 2,052,965 mapped acres, mostly in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. USDA rates shrink-swell a limit for houses without basements on 0% of that land, and a shallow water table a limit for basements on 0%.

It is the leading soil series by area in 8 of the counties and cities on this site, including Okaloosa County, FL; Lexington County, SC; Schley County, GA.

SSURGO survey versions to August 5, 2026 · series description revised 2018-10

0%

of its land: shrink-swell limits houses without basements

0%

of its land: a shallow water table limits basements

1.5%

median highest linear extensibility (6% and up is high)

4%

median highest clay content in the top 150 cm

USDA's description

The Lakeland series consists of very deep, excessively drained, rapid to very rapidly permeable soils on uplands. They 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.

Source: USDA NRCS series description (OSD) for Lakeland, revised 2018-10. Read it.

Engineering properties

Mapped area (SSURGO)2,052,965 acres
Shrink-swell limits houses without basements0.0%
Shallow water table limits basements0.0%
Very limited for septic absorption fields98.5%
Most common drainage classExcessively drained
Most common hydrologic soil groupA
Taxonomic classThermic, coated Typic Quartzipsamments
Type locationCalhoun County, Florida

Where Lakeland is mapped

StateMapped acres
Florida717,075
Georgia564,738
South Carolina515,315
Alabama162,177
North Carolina81,338
Mississippi11,529
Virginia793

Places where Lakeland leads

Counties and cities where Lakeland covers more mapped land than any other series.

PlaceShare of mapped land
Okaloosa County, FL32%
Lexington County, SC26%
Schley County, GA22%
Washington County, FL22%
Walton County, FL19%
Kershaw County, SC17%
Clay County, GA15%
Baldwin County, AL13%

Other places where Lakeland is a main soil

Counties and cities where Lakeland is among the six soil series covering the most mapped land, but not the first. Share of the place's mapped land.

Counties

Sources

Shares and properties: USDA NRCS SSURGO via Soil Data Access, weighted by each component's share of its map units. Description: the USDA NRCS series description. How we count.