Maps: Soil Survey

North Carolina Maps - Soil Survey
"These colorful maps are extremely detailed, showing not only soil types but roads, railroads, houses, churches, and many more geographic and cultural features."

Go to: http://web.lib.unc.edu/nc-maps/browse_subject.php

North Carolina Maps Collection includes County Soil Maps.

Go to: https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/search?q=collection:North%20Carolina% 20Maps%20Collection

Gaston County Soil Map shows soil types (by color code), churches, schools, mills, ferries, cemeteries, county homes, roads, rivers, creeks, mountains, and railroads including the Seaboard Air Line Railway, the Carolina and Northwestern Railway, and the Southern Railway.

Go to: http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ncmaps/id/294

Historic Overlay version of the Gaston County Soil Survey Map.
Go to: http://web.lib.unc.edu/nc-maps/interactive/MC_040_1909h.php