LOCATION BINNSVILLE              MS+AL

Established Series
Rev. WMK:RBH:DTA
09/2025

BINNSVILLE SERIES

MLRA(s): 135A
Soil Survey Regional Office (SSRO) Responsible: Southeast
Depth Class: Shallow
Agricultural Drainage Class: Well drained
Index Surface Runoff: Medium
Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity Class: Moderately low
Landscape: Blackland prairie uplands
Landform: Interstream divides, ridges, and side slopes
Parent Material: Material weathered from the Selma Chalk Formation of the Cretaceous Period
Slope: 1 to 17 percent
Mean Annual Air Temperature: 18 degrees C (64 degrees F)
Mean Annual Precipitation: 1321 millimeters (52 inches)

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Clayey, carbonatic, thermic, shallow Typic Haprendolls

TYPICAL PEDON: Binnsville silty clay loam--idle. (Colors are for moist soil unless otherwise stated.)

Ap--0 to 4 inches; very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silty clay loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; slightly sticky; many fine roots; moderately alkaline, very slightly effervescent; abrupt smooth boundary. (4 to 6 inches thick)

A--4 to 8 inches; very dark grayish brown (2.5Y 3/2) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky and granular structure; firm, sticky, plastic; common fine roots; few fine light gray soft fragments of chalk in lower part; many wormcasts; moderately alkaline, slightly effervescent; clear wavy boundary. (3 to 6 inches thick)

C--8 to 12 inches; light olive gray (5Y 6/2) silty clay loam, few distinct streaks of pale yellow (2.5Y 7/4); massive; firm, sticky, plastic; few fine roots; many wormcasts; 20 percent light gray (5Y 7/1) platy fragments of chalk; moderately alkaline, strongly effervescent; clear wavy boundary. (o to 8 inches thick)

Cr-- 12 to 48 inches; pinkish gray (5YR 7/2) chalk; few fine splotches and streaks of yellowish brown; horizontal platy rock structure; can be dug with spade when moist; moderately alkaline, violently effervescent.

TYPE LOCATION: Clay County, Mississippi; 3.5 miles southeast of McCondy Community, or 0.25 mile northeast of State Lime Plant. NW1/4NE1/4 sec. 25, R. 4 E., T. 15 S. USGS Trebloc, Mississippi topographic quadrangle.

Latitude--33.772239
Longitude-- -88.858881
Datum--WGS84

RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS:
Solum thickness: 18 to 51 centimeters (7 to 20 inches)
Depth to soft bedrock: Less than 51 centimeters (20 inches)
Depth to Seasonal High Water Table: Greater than 152 centimeters (60 inches)
Rock Fragment Content: 0 to 20 percent, by volume, in the A horizon and 10 to 30 percent, by volume, in the C horizon
Hardness of bedrock: 1 or 2 on Mohs scale

RANGE OF INDIVIDUAL HORIZONS:
A horizon:
Color--hue of 10YR or 2,5Y, value of 3, chroma of 1 to 3, or it is neutral with value of 3, and chroma of 0.
Texture (fine-earth fraction)--silty clay loam or silty clay

C horizon:
Color--hue of 5Y or 2.5Y, value of 4 to 6, chroma of 2 to 6, or it has hue of 10YR, value of 4 to 6, chroma of 2.
Texture (fine-earth fraction)--silty clay loam or silty clay

Cr horizon:
Color--hue of 5Y, 2.5Y, or 10YR, value of 6 or 7, chroma of 1 or 4, or it is neutral with value of 6 or 7, chroma of 0.

COMPETING SERIES:
There are no competing series in the same family. Closely related soils are:
Demopolis soils--do not have a mollic epipedon and are loamy-skeletal
Stephen soils--are in a ustic moisture regime
Sumter soils--do not have a mollic epipedon and have a thicker solum

GEOGRAPHIC SETTING:
Landscape: Blackland prairie uplands
Landform: Interstream divides, ridges, and side slopes
Parent Material: Material weathered from the Selma Chalk Formation of the Cretaceous Period
Mean Annual Air Temperature: 15 to 20 degrees C (59 to 68 degrees F)
Mean Annual Precipitation: 1143 to 1397 millimeters (45 to 55 inches)
Frost Free Period: 200 to 250 days

GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS:
Brooksville soils--are very deep, are somewhat poorly drained, and have a thick dark solum
Eutaw soils--are very deep and are poorly drained
Houston soils--are very deep, are moderately well drained, and have a very high shrink-swell potential
Kipling soils--are very deep and are somewhat poorly drained
Okolona soils--are very deep and have a very high shrink-swell potential
Oktibbeha soils--are very deep and are moderately well drained
Vaiden soils--are very deep and are somewhat poorly drained
Watsonia soils--do not have a mollic epipedon

DRAINAGE AND SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY:
Agricultural Drainage Class: Well drained
Index Surface Runoff: Medium
Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity: Moderately low

USE AND VEGETATION:
Major Uses: Rangeland, woodland, and pasture and hayland
Dominant vegetation: Native grasses or a sparse forest of red cedar and osage orange

SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (SSRO) RESPONSIBLE: Auburn, Alabama

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT:
Distribution: Alabama and Mississippi
Extent: Moderate

SERIES ESTABLISHED: Noxubee County, Mississippi; 1950.

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National Cooperative Soil Survey
U.S.A.