LOCATION MEANSVILLE GA
Tentative Series
SDT/CM; DTA
04/2026
MEANSVILLE SERIES
MLRA(s): 136 (thermic part)
Soil Survey Regional Office (SSRO) Responsible: Southeast
Depth Class: Shallow
Agricultural Drainage Class: Well drained
Index Surface Runoff: Low
Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity Class: High to very high
Landscape: Piedmont uplands
Landform: Interstream divides, ridges, and side slopes
Parent Material: Loamy residuum weathered from meta-quartzite and schist
Slope: 2 to 60 percent
Elevation: 280 meters (920 feet)
Mean Annual Air Temperature (type location): 17 degrees C (63 degrees F)
Mean Annual Precipitation (type location): 1270 millimeters (50 inches)
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, subactive, thermic, shallow Typic Dystrudepts
TYPICAL PEDON: Meansville very cobbly sandy loam-in forest. (Colors are for moist soil unless otherwise indicated.)
A--0 to 15 centimeters (0 to 6 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) very cobbly sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; very friable; many fine roots; 45 percent, by volume, nonflat angular strongly cemented meta-quartzite gravel and cobbles; very strongly acid; clear wavy boundary. (2 to 15 centimeters (1 to 9 inches) thick)
Bw--15 to 39 centimeters (6 to 15 inches); reddish yellow (5YR 6/6) very cobbly sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 5 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 45 percent, by volume, nonflat angular strongly cemented meta-quartzite gravel and cobbles; very strongly acid; clear irregular boundary. (13 to 40 centimeters (5 to 15 inches) thick)
Cr--39 to 203 centimeters (15 to 80 inches); weathered meta-quartzite interbedded with thin strata of quartz schist; 5 percent clay bodies in cracks.
TYPE LOCATION: Lamar County, Georgia, about 0.12 mile from the intersection of Crawford Road and Water Works Road, about 95 yards east of Crawford Road past northside of road cut; USGS Barnesville, Georgia topographic quadrangle.
Latitude--33.0706
Longitude-- -84.1407
Datum--WGS84
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS:
Solum thickness: less than 51 centimeters (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: meta-quartzite and schist range from 15 to 60 percent throughout.
Soil Reaction: Very strongly acid or strongly acid, unless limed
RANGE OF INDIVIDUAL HORIZONS:
A horizon:
Color--hue of 10YR or 7.5YR, value of 3 to 5, chroma of 2 to 4
Texture (fine-earth fraction)--fine sandy loam, sandy loam, silt loam, or loam
E horizon (if it occurs):
Color--hue of 10YR or 7.5YR, value of 4 or 5, chroma of 3 to 6
Texture (fine-earth fraction)--fine sandy loam, sandy loam, or loam
BA horizon (if it occurs):
Color--hue of 5YR to 10YR, value of 4 or 5, chroma of 4 to 6
Texture (fine-earth fraction)--fine sandy loam or loam
Bw horizon:
Color--hue of 7.5YR to 10YR, value of 4 or 5, chroma of 4 to 8
Texture (fine-earth fraction)--fine sandy loam, sandy clay loam, sandy loam, or loam
Cr horizon:
Color--Variable
Texture--weathered meta-quartzite
COMPETING SERIES:
Goldston soils--have a depth to hard bedrock of 51 to 102 centimeters (20 to 40 inches) and formed in fine-grained metasedimentary or metavolcanic rocks in the Carolina Slate Belt.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING:
Landscape: Piedmont uplands
Landform: Interstream divides, ridges, and side slopes
Parent Material: Loamy residuum weathered from meta-quartzite and schist
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS:
Bethlehem soils--are clayey, moderately deep to soft bedrock, and lack a significant amount of fragments throughout the solum
Grover soils--are very deep to bedrock and lack a significant amount of fragments throughout the solum
Madison soils--are clayey, very deep to bedrock, and lack a significant amount of fragments throughout the solum
Pacolet soils--are clayey, very deep to bedrock, and lack a significant amount of fragments throughout the solum
Saw soils--are clayey, deep to hard bedrock, and lack a significant amount of fragments throughout the solum
Thomaston soils--are fine-loamy and have a depth to soft bedrock of 51 to 102 centimeters (20 to 40 inches)
Towaliga soils--are clayey, very deep to bedrock, and have a lithologic discontinuity
Tussahaw soils--are moderately deep to soft bedrock and deep to hard bedrock
DRAINAGE AND SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY:
Agricultural Drainage Class: Well drained
Index Surface Runoff: Low
Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity: High to very high
USE AND VEGETATION:
Major Uses: Woodland
Dominant Vegetation: Where wooded--mixed hardwood and pine
SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (SSRO) RESPONSIBLE: Auburn, Alabama
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT:
Distribution: Georgia and possibly Alabama
Extent: Small
SERIES PROPOSED: Meriwether County, Georgia: 2019. Name comes from local town.
REMARKS: These soils were previously included with the Mountainburg series and have also been mapped as cobbly and gravelly land.
Diagnostic horizons and soil characteristics recognized in this pedon:
Ochric epipedon--the zone from 0 to 8 centimeters (0 to 3 inches) (A horizon)
Cambic horizon--the zone from 15 to 38 centimeters (6 to 15 inches) (Bw horizon)
Paralithic contact--Weathered bedrock at 39 centimeters (15 inches) the upper boundary of the Cr horizon)
ADDITIONAL DATA:
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National Cooperative Soil Survey
U.S.A.