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Volusia soil series
Volusia soils cover 1,518,973 mapped acres, mostly in New York and Pennsylvania. 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 over 99%.
It is the leading soil series by area in 10 of the counties and cities on this site, including Broome County, NY; Tioga County, NY; Bradford County, PA.
SSURGO survey versions to August 5, 2026 · series description revised 2017-10
of its land: shrink-swell limits houses without basements
of its land: a shallow water table limits basements
median highest linear extensibility (6% and up is high)
median highest clay content in the top 150 cm
USDA's description
The Volusia series consists of very deep, somewhat poorly drained soils formed in loamy till. These soils are on concave to planer landscape positions in glaciated upland areas. A dense fragipan is at a depth of 25 to 56 cm (10 to 22 inches) below the soil surface. Slope ranges from 0 to 35 percent. Saturated hydraulic conductivity in the mineral soil above the fragipan is moderately high or high and in the fragipan and substratum it is low to moderately high. Mean annual temperature is about 8 degrees C (46 degrees F), and the mean annual precipitation is about 1080 mm (42.5 inches).
Source: USDA NRCS series description (OSD) for Volusia, revised 2017-10. Read it.
Engineering properties
| Mapped area (SSURGO) | 1,518,973 acres |
| Shrink-swell limits houses without basements | 0.0% |
| Shallow water table limits basements | 100.0% |
| Very limited for septic absorption fields | 100.0% |
| Most common drainage class | Somewhat poorly drained |
| Most common hydrologic soil group | D |
| Taxonomic class | Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Aeric Fragiaquepts |
| Type location | Cortland County, New York |
Where Volusia is mapped
| State | Mapped acres |
|---|---|
| New York | 1,003,205 |
| Pennsylvania | 515,768 |
Places where Volusia leads
Counties and cities where Volusia covers more mapped land than any other series.
| Place | Share of mapped land |
|---|---|
| Broome County, NY | 33% |
| Tioga County, NY | 28% |
| Bradford County, PA | 27% |
| Chemung County, NY | 25% |
| Steuben County, NY | 20% |
| Livingston County, NY | 17% |
| Susquehanna County, PA | 15% |
| Schuyler County, NY | 15% |
| Cortland County, NY | 13% |
| Cattaraugus County, NY | 7% |
Other places where Volusia is a main soil
Counties and cities where Volusia 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.