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Gilpin soil series
Gilpin soils cover 5,850,620 mapped acres, mostly in West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Kentucky. 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 under 1%.
It is the leading soil series by area in 58 of the counties and cities on this site, including Gilmer County, WV; Doddridge County, WV; Braxton County, WV.
SSURGO survey versions to August 5, 2026 · series description revised 2014-10
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
Engineering properties
| Mapped area (SSURGO) | 5,850,620 acres |
| Shrink-swell limits houses without basements | 0.0% |
| Shallow water table limits basements | under 0.1% |
| Very limited for septic absorption fields | 98.0% |
| Most common drainage class | Well drained |
| Most common hydrologic soil group | C |
| Taxonomic class | Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludults |
| Type location | Indiana County, Pennsylvania |
Where Gilpin is mapped
| State | Mapped acres |
|---|---|
| West Virginia | 2,253,454 |
| Pennsylvania | 1,219,783 |
| Kentucky | 748,024 |
| Ohio | 691,125 |
| Tennessee | 490,262 |
| Indiana | 174,666 |
| Virginia | 170,284 |
| Maryland | 93,830 |
| New York | 9,193 |
Places where Gilpin leads
Counties and cities where Gilpin covers more mapped land than any other series.
Other places where Gilpin is a main soil
Counties and cities where Gilpin is among the six soil series covering the most mapped land, but not the first. Share of the place's mapped land.
Counties
- Jackson County, KY 27%
- Meigs County, OH 26%
- Wolfe County, KY 25%
- Lee County, KY 25%
- Owsley County, KY 24%
- Bledsoe County, TN 23%
- Wood County, WV 21%
- Hancock County, WV 21%
- Marion County, WV 20%
- Elliott County, KY 19%
- Morgan County, KY 19%
- Washington County, OH 17%
- Clay County, KY 17%
- Monongalia County, WV 16%
- Noble County, OH 15%
- Sequatchie County, TN 15%
- Jefferson County, OH 14%
- Lawrence County, OH 14%
- Russell County, KY 14%
- Cambria County, PA 13%
- Breathitt County, KY 13%
- Breckinridge County, KY 12%
- Cumberland County, TN 12%
- Clearfield County, PA 12%
- Leslie County, KY 12%
- Nicholas County, WV 11%
- Webster County, WV 11%
- Bell County, KY 11%
- Dickenson County, VA 11%
- Edmonson County, KY 11%
- Summers County, WV 10%
- Butler County, KY 10%
- Somerset County, PA 10%
- Johnson County, KY 10%
- Lee County, VA 10%
- Magoffin County, KY 9%
- Forest County, PA 9%
- Perry County, KY 9%
- Guernsey County, OH 9%
- Mineral County, WV 9%
- Harrison County, OH 8%
- Letcher County, KY 8%
- Estill County, KY 8%
- Rhea County, TN 8%
- Wise County, VA 8%
- Brooke County, WV 7%
- Knott County, KY 7%
- Pulaski County, VA 7%
- Overton County, TN 7%
- Venango County, PA 7%
- Boyd County, KY 7%
- Warren County, PA 7%
- Floyd County, KY 7%
- Greene County, IN 6%
- Pike County, IN 6%
- Columbiana County, OH 6%
- McCreary County, KY 6%
- Bath County, KY 6%
- Harlan County, KY 6%
- Allegany County, MD 6%
- Greenup County, KY 6%
- Scott County, VA 6%
- Grant County, WV 5%
- Meade County, KY 5%
- Van Buren County, TN 5%
- Muskingum County, OH 5%
- Giles County, VA 5%
- Marshall County, WV 5%
- Hamilton County, TN 5%
- Fentress County, TN 4%
- Brown County, IN 4%
- Grundy County, TN 4%
- Wyoming County, WV 3%
- McDowell County, WV 2%
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.