Soil and Land Resources of the North Coast

This digital soil landscape product contains natural resource mapping for the NSW portion of the Clarence-Moreton Basin and surrounding area in the far North Coast of NSW. Mapping covers an area of 25,604 km2, extending from the Queensland border down to south of Grafton and west to approximately the Clarence River.

The dataset includes existing published 1:100,000 soil landscape mapping along the coast (Murwillumbah – Tweed Heads, Lismore – Ballina, Woodburn, Dorrigo [part] and Coffs Harbour [part]), incorporates previous unpublished draft 1:100,000 - 1:250,000 Western Richmond soil landscapes and maps the remaining area around Bare Point and the western region with a 1:250,000 reconnaissance soil survey.

226 soil landscape map units have been described within this North Coast region. Each unit is an inventory of soil and landscape information with relatively uniform land management requirements, allowing major soil and landscape qualities and constraints to be identified. Some representative type profiles are supported by laboratory analysis and soils are described using the Australian Soil Classification and the Great Soil Groups systems.

<strong>Related Datasets:</strong> The dataset area is also covered by the mapping of the Soil landscape 1:100 000 and 1:250 000 mapping series for the map sheets of <a href="https://datasets.seed.nsw.gov.au/dataset/soil-landscapes-of-the-murwillumbah-tweed-heads-1-100000-sheets1c5ee">Murwillumbah-Tweed Heads</a>, <a href="https://datasets.seed.nsw.gov.au/dataset/soil-landscapes-of-the-lismore-ballina-1-100000-sheets554a6">Lismore-Ballina</a>, <a href="https://datasets.seed.nsw.gov.au/dataset/soil-landscapes-of-the-woodburn-1-100000-sheetc7323">Woodburn</a>, <a href="https://datasets.seed.nsw.gov.au/dataset/soil-landscapes-of-the-dorrigo-1-100000-sheet162bf">Dorrigo</a> and <a href="https://datasets.seed.nsw.gov.au/dataset/soil-landscapes-of-the-coffs-harbour-1-100000-sheet29605">Coffs Harbour</a>. Part of this area is also covered by the mapping of <a href="http://datasets.seed.nsw.gov.au/dataset/hydrogeological-landscapes-nsw-act">Hydrogeological landscapes of NSW</a> and <a href="http://datasets.seed.nsw.gov.au/dataset/acid-sulfate-soils-risk0196c">Acid Sulphate Soil Risk Mapping</a>.

<strong>Online Maps:</strong> This and related datasets can be viewed using <a href="http://espade.environment.nsw.gov.au/">eSPADE</a> (NSW’s soil spatial viewer), which contains a suite of soil and landscape information including soil profile data. Many of these datasets have hot-linked soil reports. An alternative viewer is the <a href="https://geo.seed.nsw.gov.au/Public_Viewer/index.html?viewer=Public_Viewer&amp;locale=en-AU">SEED Map</a>; an ideal way to see what other natural resources datasets (e.g. vegetation) are available for this map area.

<strong>Reference:</strong> Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, 2025, <em>Soil and Land Resources of North Coast</em>, Version 1.1, NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Parramatta.

Tags: Land management, Soil Landscapes, Soil and Land Resource Series
Organization: NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water