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Georgeville soil series
Georgeville soils cover 1,404,882 mapped acres, mostly in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. 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 10 of the counties and cities on this site, including Randolph County, NC; Orange County, NC; Wilkes County, GA.
SSURGO survey versions to August 5, 2026 · series description revised 2025-09
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 fine-grained metavolcanic rock of the Carolina Slate Belt |
| Slope | 2 to 50 percent |
Source: USDA NRCS series description (OSD) for Georgeville, revised 2025-09. Read it.
Engineering properties
| Mapped area (SSURGO) | 1,404,882 acres |
| Shrink-swell limits houses without basements | 0.0% |
| Shallow water table limits basements | 0.0% |
| Very limited for septic absorption fields | 11.2% |
| Most common drainage class | Well drained |
| Most common hydrologic soil group | B |
| Taxonomic class | Fine, kaolinitic, thermic Typic Kanhapludults |
| Type location | Montgomery County, North Carolina |
Where Georgeville is mapped
| State | Mapped acres |
|---|---|
| North Carolina | 637,359 |
| South Carolina | 345,927 |
| Georgia | 247,915 |
| Virginia | 173,385 |
| Alabama | 296 |
Places where Georgeville leads
Counties and cities where Georgeville covers more mapped land than any other series.
| Place | Share of mapped land |
|---|---|
| Randolph County, NC | 31% |
| Orange County, NC | 29% |
| Wilkes County, GA | 26% |
| Lincoln County, GA | 25% |
| McDuffie County, GA | 20% |
| Chatham County, NC | 20% |
| Granville County, NC | 16% |
| Warren County, GA | 15% |
| Person County, NC | 15% |
| McCormick County, SC | 13% |
Other places where Georgeville is a main soil
Counties and cities where Georgeville is among the six soil series covering the most mapped land, but not the first. Share of the place's mapped land.
Counties
- Saluda County, SC 20%
- Lunenburg County, VA 18%
- Nash County, NC 17%
- Taliaferro County, GA 13%
- Montgomery County, NC 12%
- Edgefield County, SC 11%
- Mecklenburg County, VA 10%
- Lancaster County, SC 10%
- York County, SC 10%
- Davidson County, NC 9%
- Dinwiddie County, VA 9%
- Charlotte County, VA 9%
- Oglethorpe County, GA 8%
- Greenwood County, SC 8%
- Richland County, SC 8%
- Fairfield County, SC 8%
- Moore County, NC 8%
- Durham County, NC 7%
- Franklin County, NC 6%
- Richmond County, NC 6%
- Columbia County, GA 6%
- Hancock County, GA 6%
- Stanly County, NC 5%
- Campbell County, VA 5%
- Lynchburg city, VA 5%
- Lincoln County, NC 4%
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.