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Gibson County

Septic services in Yorkville, Tennessee

Operators based within 12 miles of Yorkville

Listed by where the business is, not by who it says it serves. Every operator here holds a current state permit, and the address it is placed by comes from the state's own published list — so this is a checkable claim rather than a service-area promise. A Tennessee installer permit is valid statewide, so operators further out can work here too; these are simply the ones closest to you.

Michael Autry

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Septic Installation · Septic System Repair

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Parham LLC

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Septic Installation · Septic Tank Pumping · Septic System Repair

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Rowell Excavation

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Septic Installation · Septic Tank Pumping · Septic System Repair

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Soil and septic suitability around Yorkville

The USDA has already rated this ground for exactly one use: a septic tank absorption field. Within 4 miles of Yorkville — 32,012 acres across 35 soil map units — it rates 86.8% of the land very limited for that use and 12.9% somewhat limited, and almost none with no limitation at all.

What the limitation actually is

A rating on its own tells you nothing you can act on. The reasons do, and around Yorkville the leading one is depth to saturated zone on 86.3% of the mapped area, followed by flooding on 21.1%. In full:

Limiting featureShare of areaWhat it means on site
Depth to saturated zone86.3%A seasonal water table sits too close to the surface
Flooding21.1%The site floods often enough to matter
Slow water movement8.1%Water moves through the soil too slowly for a drain field to keep up
Slope0.2%The ground is too steep for a conventional field
Seepage, bottom layer0.1%The layer beneath the trench is porous enough that effluent could reach groundwater without being filtered

Shares overlap: most soils here are limited for more than one reason at once, so these do not sum to 99.7%.

The soils themselves

The named soils and land types that make up most of the ground around Yorkville. Loring alone accounts for 46% of it.

Soil or land typeShareDrainageSlopeDepth to bedrockSeptic rating
Loring46% Moderately well drained 2 to 20% None in profile Very limited
Feliciana12.9% Well drained 2 to 20% None in profile Somewhat limited
Falaya12.2% Poorly drained 0 to 2% None in profile Very limited
Grenada8.8% Moderately well drained 0 to 12% None in profile Very limited
Collins6.7% Moderately well drained 0 to 2% None in profile Very limited

“None in profile” means SSURGO records no bedrock or other restrictive layer within the depth it describes, not that none exists.

What that means if you are building or repairing here

A seasonal water table

Some of the ground around Yorkville carries a water table that rises close to the surface for part of the year and is nowhere to be seen for the rest of it. A field built into saturated soil does not treat effluent and does not drain, and the soil does not have to be wet on the day it is looked at for that to be true — the evidence is in the profile, as mottling and grey colours, which is one of the reasons the work is done by someone trained to read a soil pit rather than by timing water in a hole in August.

Area of interest: a 4-mile radius around the USGS Geographic Names centre point for Yorkville (GNIS 1304709, 36.0995, -89.1190), chosen because five of this state's communities are unincorporated and have no boundary to use, and because the lots that need a septic permit are in the ring around a town rather than inside it. Soil from USDA-NRCS Soil Data Access, SSURGO interpretation “ENG - Septic Tank Absorption Fields”, area-weighted by mapped acreage and by each component's share of its map unit. Survey areas: Dyer County, Tennessee (2025-08-28), Gibson County, Tennessee (2025-08-28). Retrieved 2026-09-09.

This is a survey, not a soil map for your lot. A permit needs a high-intensity map of the specific parcel, produced by a TDEC-approved soil consultant — see soil map vs perc test.

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Permitting in Gibson County

Septic permitting in Gibson County is administered by the State of Tennessee, not the county health department. See the Gibson County detail →