Orangeburg soils have less than 15 percent silt in the particle size control section. Ruston soils are bisequal. Smithdale soils have significantly less clay in the lower part of the B horizon. Jefferson and Nolichucky soils are mesic and Jefferson soils have a solum less than 60 inches thick. Waynesboro soils have a clayey particle size control section.
Allen soils are on hillsides, foot slopes, or terraces.
Slopes range from 2 to 40 percent. These soils formed in loamy alluvium or colluvium and in residuum of sandstone and shale. Mean annual temperature is 60 degrees F., and mean annual precipitation is 54 inches near the type location. These are the competing Etowah , Holston , and Waynesboro series and the Anniston , Beersheba , Cane , Hartsells , Hector , Lily , Linker , Locust , Monteagle , Nella and Ramsey series. Anniston soils have a value of 3 in the B horizon.