Soil Survey of Murray and Whitfield Counties, Georgia

100 Soil Survey
Woodland
Potential productivity: Moderate
Preferred trees to plant: Loblolly pine and shortleaf pine
Management concerns: Slope, erodibility, content of rock fragments, and low available
water capacity
Urban development
Suitability: Poorly suited
Limitations: Slope and slow water movement
Recreational development
Suitability: Poorly suited
Limitations: Content of gravel and slope
Land capability classification: 7E
Interpretive Group
NtF—Nella-Hector-Townley complex, 30 to 60 percent
slopes, rubbly
Landform: Ridges
Landform position: Backslopes
Flooding: None
Slope: Steep
Nella soils—about 40 percent
Hector soils—about 35 percent
Townley—about 25 percent
Setting
Composition
Typical Profile
Nella
Surface layer:
0 to 5 inches—brown gravelly fine sandy loam
Subsurface layer:
5 to 10 inches—yellowish brown gravelly fine sandy loam
Subsoil:
10 to 13 inches—brown gravelly sandy loam
13 to 38 inches—yellowish red gravelly clay loam
38 to 48 inches—dark red very gravelly sandy clay loam that has reddish yellow
mottles
48 to 58 inches—red gravelly sandy clay loam that has reddish yellow mottles
58 to 65 inches—red gravelly clay loam that has light yellowish brown and reddish
brown mottles
Hector
Surface layer:
0 to 4 inches—very dark grayish brown very gravelly sandy loam
Subsurface layer:
4 to 11 inches—brown gravelly sandy loam