LOCATION LYNCHBURG SC+AL FL GA NC VA
Established Series
DJD-CMO:Rev.JAK:Rev.DTA
12/2025
LYNCHBURG SERIES
MLRA(s): 133A, 153A, 153B
Soil Survey Regional Office (SSRO) Responsible: Southeast
Depth Class: Very deep
Agricultural Drainage Class: Somewhat poorly drained
Index Surface Runoff: Low
Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity Class: Moderately high
Shrink-Swell Potential: Low
Landscape: Coastal Plain uplands
Landform: Marine terraces and flats
Parent Material: Marine deposits and fluviomarine deposits
Slope: 0 to 5 percent
Mean Annual Air Temperature: 17 degrees C (62 degrees F)
Mean Annual Precipitation: 1219 millimeters (48 inches)
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Aeric Paleaquults
TYPICAL PEDON: Lynchburg loamy fine sand--cultivated. (Colors are for moist soil.)
Ap--0 to 15 centimeters (0 to 6 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) loamy fine sand; weak medium granular structure; very friable; common fine roots, few medium roots; very strongly acid; clear smooth boundary. (8 to 28 centimeters (3 to 11 inches) thick)
E--15 to 25 centimeters (6 to 10 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loamy fine sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; common fine roots; few fine pores; common medium distinct dark gray (10YR 4/1) iron depletions; very strongly acid; clear smooth boundary. (0 to 25 centimeters (0 to 10 inches) thick)
Bt--25 to 43 centimeters (10 to 17 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; common fine roots; few fine pores; few faint clay films on faces of some peds; common medium distinct light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) iron depletions and many medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), and few fine medium prominent red (2.5YR 4/8) masses of oxidized iron; very strongly acid; clear wavy boundary.
Btg1--43 to 76 centimeters (17 to 30 inches); light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2) sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine roots; few fine pores; common faint clay films on faces of some peds; many medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and common medium prominent red (2.5YR 4/6) masses of oxidized iron; very strongly acid; gradual smooth boundary.
Btg2--76 to 165 centimeters (30 to 65 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; few fine roots; common faint clay films on faces of peds; many medium prominent yellowish brown and many medium prominent red (2.5YR 4/8) masses of oxidized iron; very strongly acid; gradual smooth boundary.
Btg3--165 to 203 centimeters (65 to 80 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) clay; weak medium subangular structure; firm; few fine roots; few faint clay films on faces of peds; many medium prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) and few fine prominent red (2.5YR) masses of oxidized iron and few medium faint greenish gray (5BG 6/1) iron depletions; very strongly acid. (Combined thickness of the Bt horizons is more than 102 centimeters (40 inches.)
TYPE LOCATION: Colleton County, South Carolina, 3,000 feet southwest of junction of U.S. Highway 21 and Seaboard Coastline Railroad in Ruffin; 450 feet southwest of junction of U.S. Highway 21 and South Carolina Secondary Road 272; 100 feet north of U.S. Highway 21. USGS Williams, South Carolina topographic quadrangle.
Latitude--33.0000
Longitude-- -80.8245
Datum--WGS84
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS:
Thickness of the surface and subsurface layers: 8 to 48 centimeters (3 to 19 inches)
Depth to top of the Argillic horizon: 8 to 48 centimeters (3 to 19 inches)
Depth to the base of the Argillic horizon: 152 to more than 203 centimeters (60 to more than 80 inches)
Soil reaction: Extremely acid to strongly acid throughout, except where limed
Depth to Bedrock: Greater than 203 centimeters (80 inches)
Depth to Seasonal High Water Table: 15 to 46 centimeters (6 to 18 inches), November to April
Rock Fragment content: 0 to 10 percent, by volume
Other features: The particle-size control section contains less than 30 percent silt.
RANGE OF INDIVIDUAL HORIZONS:
Ap horizon or A horizon (where present):
Color--hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 2 to 5, and chroma of 1 to 2, or is neutral with value of 2 to 5
Texture--sand, fine sand, loamy sand, loamy fine sand, sandy loam, fine sandy loam, or loam
E horizon:
Color--hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 4 to 7, chroma of 1 to 4
Texture--sand, fine sand, loamy sand, loamy fine sand, sandy loam, fine sandy loam, or loam
Redoximorphic features (where present)--masses of oxidized iron in shades of red, yellow, or brown and iron depletions in shades of brown, yellow, olive, or gray
Bt horizon:
Color--hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 4 to 6, and chroma of 3 to 8
Texture--sandy clay loam, but ranges to sandy loam, fine sandy loam, loam or clay loam. The particle-size control section contains less than 30 percent silt
Redoximorphic features (where present)--masses of oxidized iron in shades of red, yellow, or brown and iron depletions in shades of brown, yellow, olive, or gray
Btg horizon:
Color--hue of 10YR to 5Y, value of 4 to 7, chroma of 1 to 2, or is neutral with value of 4 to 7
Texture--sandy loam, fine sandy loam, loam, sandy clay loam, or clay loam. Some pedons are sandy clay or clay at a depth of 40 inches or more
Redoximorphic features (where present)--masses of oxidized iron in shades of red, yellow, or brown and iron depletions in shades of brown, yellow, olive, or gray
BCg horizon:
Color--hue of 10YR to 5Y, value of 4 to 7, chroma of 1 or 2, or is neutral with value of 4 to 7
Texture--sandy loam, fine sandy loam, loam, sandy clay loam, clay loam, sandy clay, or clay
Redoximorphic features (where present)--masses of oxidized iron in shades of red, yellow, or brown and iron depletions in shades of brown, yellow, olive, or gray
COMPETING SERIES:
Hazlehurst soils--have a firm, brittle Bx horizon with more than 5 percent plinthite
Jedburg soils--contains more than 30 percent silt in the particle-size control section
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING:
Landscape: Coastal Plain uplands
Landform: Marine terraces and flats
Parent Material: Marine deposits and fluviomarine deposits
Elevation: 12 to 137 meters (40 to 450 feet)
Mean Annual Air Temperature: 14 to 21 degrees C (57 to 70 degrees F)
Mean Annual Precipitation: 965 to 1321 millimeters (38 to 52 inches)
Frost Free Period: 190 to 245 days
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS:
Clarendon soils--do not have redox depletions in the upper part of the argillic horizon and have over 10 percent plinthite in the lower horizons
Coxville soils--are poorly drained and have a clayey subsoil
Dunbar soils--are clayey
Duplin soils--do not have redox depletions in the upper part of the argillic horizon and have a clayey subsoil
Eunola soils--are moderately well drained
Foreston soils--do not have redox depletions in the upper part of the argillic horizon and have a coarse-loamy particle-size control section
Goldsboro soils--are moderately well drained
Grady soils--are poorly drained and have a clayey subsoil
Johns soils--have contrasting textures within a depth of 102 centimeters (40 inches)
Ocilla soils--have a sandy epipedon 51 to 102 centimeters (20 to 40 inches) thick
Pelham soils--are poorly drained and a sandy epipedon 51 to 102 centimeters (20 to 40 inches) thick
Rains soils--are poorly drained
Stallings soils--have a coarse-loamy particle-size control section
Woodington soils--have a coarse-loamy particle-size control section
DRAINAGE AND SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY:
Agricultural Drainage Class: Somewhat poorly drained
Index Surface Runoff: Low
Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity: Moderately high
USE AND VEGETATION:
Major Uses: Cropland, pasture, and woodland
Dominant Vegetation: Where cultivated--corn, soybeans, cotton, truck crops, small grains, or improved pasture. Where wooded--oak, sweetgum, blackgum, longleaf pine, slash pine, loblolly pine, and an understory of gallberry and pineland threeawn.
SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (SSRO) RESPONSIBLE: Auburn, Alabama
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT:
Distribution: Georgia, Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia
Extent: Large
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Tift County, Georgia; 1947.
REMARKS: The December 2025 revision changed the format. No data was changed.
Diagnostic horizons and features recognized in this pedon are:
Ochric epipedon--the zone from 0 to a depth of 25 centimeters (10 inches) (Ap and E horizons).
Argillic horizon--the zone from 25 to 157 centimeters (10 to 62 inches) (Bt and Btg horizons).
ADDITIONAL DATA:
TABULAR SERIES DATA:
SOI-5 Soil Name Slope Airtemp FrFr/Seas Precip Elevation
SC0037 LYNCHBURG 0-5 57-70 190-245 38-52 40-450
SOI-5 FloodL FloodH Watertable Kind Months Bedrock Hardness
SC0037 NONE 0.5-1.5 APPARENT NOV-APR >80 -
SOI-5 Depth Texture 3-Inch No-10 Clay% -CEC-
SC0037 0-10 LS LFS S FS 0-0 90-100 2-10 1-4
SC0037 0-10 SL FSL L 0-0 90-100 5-20 2-6
SC0037 10-65 SCL SL CL 0-0 90-100 18-35 2-7
SC0037 65-80 SCL SC C 0-0 92-100 20-50 2-7
SOI-5 Depth -pH- O.M. Salin Permeab Shnk-Swll
SC0037 0-10 3.6-6.0 0.05-5.0 0-0 6.0-20 LOW
SC0037 0-10 3.6-5.5 0.05-5.0 0-0 2.0-6.0 LOW
SC0037 10-65 3.6-5.5 0.0-0.5 0-0 0.6-2.0 LOW
SC0037 65-80 3.6-5.5 0.0-0.5 - 0.6-2.0 LOW
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National Cooperative Soil Survey
U.S.A.