Adopted by the Legislature of 1999 the state soil of Maine is indeed still Chesuncook. A soil type that was first identified in Maine and is one of its most widely distributed soil types -- its name comes from the Native American word for converging bodies of water. A lake written about in Henry David Thoreau's "The Maine Woods" also shares the name.
The Chesuncook soils formed in dense glacial till derived mainly from slate and are made up of deep, well-drained soils from hills, mountains, and ridges. The soils scientific name is "coarse-loamy, mixed, frigid Aquic Haplorthods" or, for short "Bob."
Stayed tuned; for this is more to this story indeed.
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