Farm and Forest Soils

New Hampshire's best agricultural soils cover only 380,000 acres, or 6.6%, of the state and are widely scattered in relatively small pockets. About 4% of the best soils have been lost to roads and highways, and another 12% have changed to urban land uses. That means that about 60,000 acres statewide is now unavailable for food and forage production.

Municipalities

Click the first letter of the municipality below, then click the name in the list that appears.

Acworth – Albany – Alexandria – Allenstown – Alstead – Alton – Amherst – Andover – Antrim – Ashland – Atkinson – Atkinson & Gilmanton – Auburn

Barnstead – Barrington – Bartlett – Bath – Beans Grant – Beans Purchase – Bedford – Belmont – Bennington – Benton – Berlin – Bethlehem – Boscawen – Bow – Bradford – Brentwood – Bridgewater – Bristol – Brookfield – Brookline

Cambridge – Campton – Canaan – Candia – Canterbury – Carroll – Center Harbor – Chandlers Purchase – Charlestown – Chatham – Chester – Chesterfield – Chichester – Claremont – Clarksville – Colebrook – Columbia – Concord – Conway – Cornish – Crawfords Purchase – Croydon – Cutts Grant

Dalton – Danbury – Danville – Deerfield – Deering – Derry – Dixs Grant – Dixville – Dorchester – Dover – Dublin – Dummer – Dunbarton – Durham

East Kingston – Easton – Eaton – Effingham – Ellsworth – Enfield – Epping – Epsom – Errol – Ervings Location – Exeter

Farmington – Fitzwilliam – Francestown – Franconia – Franklin – Freedom – Fremont

Gilford – Gilmanton – Gilsum – Goffstown – Gorham – Goshen – Grafton – Grantham – Greenfield – Greenland – Greens Grant – Greenville – Groton

Hadleys Purchase – Hales Location – Hampstead – Hampton – Hampton Falls – Hancock – Hanover – Harrisville – Harts Location – Haverhill – Hebron – Henniker – Hill – Hillsborough – Hinsdale – Holderness – Hollis – Hooksett – Hopkinton – Hudson

Jackson – Jaffrey – Jefferson

Keene – Kensington – Kilkenny – Kingston

Laconia – Lancaster – Landaff – Langdon – Lebanon – Lee – Lempster – Lincoln – Lisbon – Litchfield – Littleton – Londonderry – Loudon – Low & Burbanks – Lyman – Lyme – Lyndeborough

Madbury – Madison – Manchester – Marlborough – Marlow – Martins Location – Mason – Meredith – Merrimack – Middleton – Milan – Milford – Millsfield – Milton – Monroe – Mont Vernon – Moultonborough

Nashua – Nelson – New Boston – New Castle – New Durham – New Hampton – New Ipswich – New London – Newbury – Newfields – Newington – Newmarket – Newport – Newton – North Hampton – Northfield – Northumberland – Northwood – Nottingham

Odell – Orange – Orford – Ossipee

Pelham – Pembroke – Peterborough – Piermont – Pinkham's Grant – Pittsburg – Pittsfield – Plainfield – Plaistow – Plymouth – Portsmouth

Randolph – Raymond – Richmond – Rindge – Rochester – Rollinsford – Roxbury – Rumney – Rye

Salem – Salisbury – Sanbornton – Sandown – Sandwich – Sargents Purchase – Seabrook – Second College – Sharon – Shelburne – Somersworth – South Hampton – Springfield – Stark – Stewartstown – Stoddard – Strafford – Stratford – Stratham – Success – Sugar Hill – Sullivan – Sunapee – Surry – Sutton – Swanzey

Tamworth – Temple – Thompson & Meserve – Thornton – Tilton – Troy – Tuftonboro

Unity – Unorganized Territory

Wakefield – Walpole – Warner – Warren – Washington – Waterville Valley – Weare – Webster – Wentworth – Wentworths Location – Westmoreland – Whitefield – Wilmot – Wilton – Winchester – Windham – Windsor – Wolfeboro – Woodstock

Counties

Belknap
Carroll
Cheshire
Coos
Grafton
Hillsborough
Merrimack
Rockingham
Strafford
Sullivan

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