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Cecil soil series
Cecil soils cover 5,685,216 mapped acres, mostly in Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina. 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 0%.
It is the leading soil series by area in 40 of the counties and cities on this site, including Fayette County, GA; Spartanburg County, SC; Spalding County, GA.
SSURGO survey versions to August 5, 2026 · series description revised 2025-11
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
| Depth class | Very deep |
| Landscape | Piedmont uplands |
| Landform | Interstream divides, ridges, and side slopes |
| Parent material | Residuum weathered from felsic igneous and high-grade metamorphic rocks |
| Slope | 0 to 25 percent |
| Mean annual air temperature | 15 degrees C (59 degrees F) |
| Mean annual precipitation | 1219 millimeters (48 inches) |
Source: USDA NRCS series description (OSD) for Cecil, revised 2025-11. Read it.
Engineering properties
| Mapped area (SSURGO) | 5,685,216 acres |
| Shrink-swell limits houses without basements | 0.0% |
| Shallow water table limits basements | 0.0% |
| Very limited for septic absorption fields | 8.3% |
| Most common drainage class | Well drained |
| Most common hydrologic soil group | B |
| Taxonomic class | Fine, kaolinitic, thermic Typic Kanhapludults |
| Type location | Franklin County, North Carolina |
Where Cecil is mapped
| State | Mapped acres |
|---|---|
| Georgia | 2,285,453 |
| South Carolina | 1,754,494 |
| North Carolina | 864,662 |
| Virginia | 584,145 |
| Alabama | 196,462 |
Places where Cecil leads
Counties and cities where Cecil covers more mapped land than any other series.
Other places where Cecil is a main soil
Counties and cities where Cecil is among the six soil series covering the most mapped land, but not the first. Share of the place's mapped land.
Counties
- Morgan County, GA 30%
- Lincoln County, NC 29%
- Putnam County, GA 28%
- Oconee County, GA 28%
- Hart County, GA 26%
- Harris County, GA 25%
- Warren County, NC 25%
- Prince Edward County, VA 24%
- Monroe County, GA 23%
- Clarke County, GA 22%
- Lee County, AL 22%
- Pickens County, SC 21%
- Amelia County, VA 20%
- Columbia County, GA 19%
- Heard County, GA 18%
- Cherokee County, SC 17%
- Chambers County, AL 17%
- Stephens County, GA 16%
- Meriwether County, GA 16%
- Vance County, NC 16%
- Wilkes County, GA 16%
- Cleveland County, NC 15%
- Cumberland County, VA 15%
- Mecklenburg County, VA 15%
- Chester County, SC 15%
- DeKalb County, GA 14%
- Fulton County, GA 13%
- Cabarrus County, NC 13%
- Rockdale County, GA 12%
- Lancaster County, SC 12%
- Dinwiddie County, VA 12%
- Granville County, NC 12%
- Nottoway County, VA 12%
- Fairfield County, SC 11%
- Bibb County, GA 11%
- Guilford County, NC 11%
- Taliaferro County, GA 11%
- Madison County, GA 10%
- Upson County, GA 10%
- Iredell County, NC 10%
- Talbot County, GA 10%
- Warren County, GA 10%
- Appomattox County, VA 10%
- Lunenburg County, VA 10%
- Jones County, GA 10%
- Hancock County, GA 9%
- Davidson County, NC 9%
- Union County, SC 9%
- Franklin County, NC 9%
- Jasper County, GA 9%
- Polk County, NC 8%
- Wake County, NC 8%
- Hall County, GA 8%
- McDuffie County, GA 8%
- Harnett County, NC 7%
- Louisa County, VA 7%
- Rutherford County, NC 7%
- Lincoln County, GA 6%
- Cobb County, GA 6%
- Crawford County, GA 6%
- Saluda County, SC 5%
- Lee County, NC 4%
- Union County, NC 4%
- Alamance County, NC 3%
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.