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Fairview soil series
Fairview soils cover 1,077,531 mapped acres, mostly in North Carolina and Virginia. 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 9 of the counties and cities on this site, including Surry County, NC; Alexander County, NC; Burke County, NC.
SSURGO survey versions to August 5, 2026 · series description revised 2026-05
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 from felsic metamorphic or igneous rock such as mica schist, gneiss, granite gneiss, mica gneiss, granodiorite, and granite |
| Slope | 2 to 60 percent |
Source: USDA NRCS series description (OSD) for Fairview, revised 2026-05. Read it.
Engineering properties
| Mapped area (SSURGO) | 1,077,531 acres |
| Shrink-swell limits houses without basements | 0.0% |
| Shallow water table limits basements | 0.0% |
| Very limited for septic absorption fields | 79.3% |
| Most common drainage class | Well drained |
| Most common hydrologic soil group | B |
| Taxonomic class | Fine, kaolinitic, mesic Typic Kanhapludults |
| Type location | Surry County, North Carolina |
Where Fairview is mapped
| State | Mapped acres |
|---|---|
| North Carolina | 870,088 |
| Virginia | 207,443 |
Places where Fairview leads
Counties and cities where Fairview covers more mapped land than any other series.
| Place | Share of mapped land |
|---|---|
| Surry County, NC | 45% |
| Alexander County, NC | 39% |
| Burke County, NC | 33% |
| Stokes County, NC | 30% |
| Patrick County, VA | 30% |
| Wilkes County, NC | 29% |
| Forsyth County, NC | 28% |
| Caldwell County, NC | 18% |
| Caswell County, NC | 17% |
Other places where Fairview is a main soil
Counties and cities where Fairview is among the six soil series covering the most mapped land, but not the first. Share of the place's mapped land.
Counties
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.