The Burkeville series consists of very deep, well poorly drained, very slowly permeable soils that formed in weakly consolidated, calcareous clays and marls of the Coastal Plain. These soils are on gently sloping to strongly sloping uplands.
Water runs off the surface at a rapid rate.
Slopes are dominantly 3 to 6 percent, but range from 1 to 15 percent. Burkeville clay on a smooth convex slope of 4 percent in pasture, midway between microlow and microhigh. Solum thickness ranges from 60 to 80 inches. The weighted average clay content of the particles-size control section ranges from 60 to 70 percent. Cracks remain open from 60 to 90 cumulative days in most years.