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Tifton soil series
Tifton soils cover 1,851,014 mapped acres, almost all of them in 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 29%.
It is the leading soil series by area in 26 of the counties and cities on this site, including Turner County, GA; Colquitt County, GA; Tift County, GA.
SSURGO survey versions to August 5, 2026 · series description revised 2026-01
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 | Coastal Plain uplands |
| Landform | Ridges and side slopes |
| Parent material | Loamy marine deposits |
| Slope | 0 to 8 percent |
| Mean annual air temperature | 18 degrees C (64 degrees F) |
| Mean annual precipitation | 1346 millimeters (53 inches) |
Source: USDA NRCS series description (OSD) for Tifton, revised 2026-01. Read it.
Engineering properties
| Mapped area (SSURGO) | 1,851,014 acres |
| Shrink-swell limits houses without basements | 0.0% |
| Shallow water table limits basements | 29.1% |
| Very limited for septic absorption fields | 99.0% |
| Most common drainage class | Well drained |
| Most common hydrologic soil group | B |
| Taxonomic class | Fine-loamy, kaolinitic, thermic Plinthic Kandiudults |
| Type location | Tift County, Georgia. The Coastal Plain Experiment Station, Carpenter Farm. About 0.96 kilometers north (0.6 miles) of Abraham Baldwin College to Zion Hope Church Road, about 1.28 kilometers west (0.8 miles) on paved road, about 0.64 kilometers north (0.4 miles) on unpaved road and about 100 feet west of road. USGS Tifton West, Georgia topographic quadrangle. |
Where Tifton is mapped
| State | Mapped acres |
|---|---|
| Georgia | 1,788,611 |
| Alabama | 35,578 |
| Florida | 26,825 |
Places where Tifton leads
Counties and cities where Tifton covers more mapped land than any other series.
Other places where Tifton is a main soil
Counties and cities where Tifton is among the six soil series covering the most mapped land, but not the first. Share of the place's mapped land.
Counties
- Terrell County, GA 22%
- Pulaski County, GA 16%
- Evans County, GA 15%
- Dooly County, GA 15%
- Bulloch County, GA 14%
- Bleckley County, GA 13%
- Telfair County, GA 12%
- Wheeler County, GA 12%
- Berrien County, GA 11%
- Burke County, GA 10%
- Coffee County, GA 9%
- Emanuel County, GA 8%
- Dougherty County, GA 6%
- Decatur County, GA 5%
- Twiggs County, GA 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.