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Soil Survey of Lincoln County, West Virginia
Adding extra reinforcement to footings, backfilling with porous material, and keeping
water away from footings and foundations help to prevent the structural damage
caused by shrinking and swelling in areas of the Upshur soil.
Keeping surface water and subsurface water away from building sites and installing
properly constructed retaining walls, where feasible, help to prevent the structural
damage caused by slippage.
Establishing a plant cover during or soon after construction helps to prevent
excessive erosion in areas cleared for construction.
Interpretive Groups
Land capability classification: 6e
Woodland ordination symbol: Gilpin—4R on both north and south aspects; Upshur—
4R on north aspects and 3R on south aspects
Prime farmland: No
Hydric soil: No
GpF—Gilpin-Upshur complex, 35 to 65 percent slopes
Setting
Landscape position: On very steep linear and convex side slopes of hills; weathered
from red clay and acid gray shales; throughout the northern part of the county
Note: The Gilpin and Upshur soils occur as areas so intermingled and small that
mapping them separately is impractical.
Composition
Gilpin, Upshur, and similar soils: 93 percent
Dissimilar soils: 7 percent
Typical Profile
Gilpin
Organic layers:
0 to 2 inches—slightly decomposed leaf litter
2 to 3 inches—moderately decomposed, very dark gray leaf litter
Surface layer:
3 to 6 inches—very dark grayish brown silt loam
Subsoil:
6 to 16 inches—yellowish brown channery silt loam
16 to 28 inches—brown channery silty clay loam
Bedrock:
28 to 33 inches—interbedded soft shale, siltstone, and fine grained sandstone
33 inches—hard, fine grained sandstone
Upshur
Organic layer:
0 to 1 inch—slightly decomposed leaf litter
Surface layer:
1 to 4 inches—brown silt loam
Subsoil:
4 to 8 inches—strong brown silt loam
8 to 24 inches—yellowish red silty clay
24 to 32 inches—dark reddish brown clay
32 to 41 inches—dusky red channery clay
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