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Bowie soil series
Bowie soils cover 1,031,059 mapped acres, mostly in Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas. USDA rates shrink-swell a limit for houses without basements on 0% of that land, and a shallow water table a limit for basements on 79%.
It is the leading soil series by area in 26 of the counties and cities on this site, including Camp County, TX; Marion County, TX; Morris County, TX.
SSURGO survey versions to August 5, 2026 · series description revised 2016-10
of its land: shrink-swell limits houses without basements
of its land: a shallow water table limits basements
median highest linear extensibility (6% and up is high)
median highest clay content in the top 150 cm
USDA's description
The Bowie series consists of very deep, well drained soils that formed in loamy Coastal Plain deposits on the Queen City, Reklaw, Cook Mountain, Sparta, Cockfield and Carrizo Sand Formations. These very gently sloping to moderately
Source: USDA NRCS series description (OSD) for Bowie, revised 2016-10. Read it.
Engineering properties
| Mapped area (SSURGO) | 1,031,059 acres |
| Shrink-swell limits houses without basements | 0.0% |
| Shallow water table limits basements | 79.4% |
| Very limited for septic absorption fields | 84.5% |
| Most common drainage class | Well drained |
| Most common hydrologic soil group | B |
| Taxonomic class | Fine-loamy, siliceous, semiactive, thermic Plinthic Paleudults |
| Type location | Harrison County, Texas |
Where Bowie is mapped
| State | Mapped acres |
|---|---|
| Texas | 590,145 |
| Louisiana | 208,225 |
| Arkansas | 193,079 |
| Alabama | 39,610 |
Places where Bowie leads
Counties and cities where Bowie covers more mapped land than any other series.
| Place | Share of mapped land |
|---|---|
| Marietta, TX | 66% |
| Troup, TX | 51% |
| Omaha, TX | 42% |
| Rocky Mound, TX | 40% |
| Avinger, TX | 37% |
| White Oak, TX | 37% |
| Ore City, TX | 35% |
| Pittsburg, TX | 34% |
| East Mountain, TX | 33% |
| Bloomburg, TX | 33% |
| Atlanta, TX | 32% |
| Gilmer, TX | 32% |
| Domino, TX | 31% |
| Queen City, TX | 29% |
| Longview, TX | 29% |
| Naples, TX | 27% |
| Camp County, TX | 27% |
| Clarksville City, TX | 25% |
| Reklaw, TX | 24% |
| Big Sandy, TX | 21% |
| Kilgore, TX | 20% |
| Gallatin, TX | 20% |
| Gladewater, TX | 20% |
| Henderson, TX | 18% |
| Marion County, TX | 14% |
| Morris County, TX | 13% |
Other places where Bowie is a main soil
Counties and cities where Bowie is among the six soil series covering the most mapped land, but not the first. Share of the place's mapped land.
Counties
- Upshur County, TX 19%
- Gregg County, TX 18%
- Columbia County, AR 16%
- Cass County, TX 16%
- Harrison County, TX 9%
- Bienville Parish, LA 9%
- Cherokee County, TX 9%
- Nevada County, AR 8%
- Miller County, AR 7%
- Smith County, TX 6%
- Lincoln Parish, LA 6%
- Caddo Parish, LA 5%
- Sabine Parish, LA 5%
- Jackson Parish, LA 5%
- Baldwin County, AL 4%
Texas and Ohio cities
- Union Grove, TX 27%
- Warren City, TX 25%
- Douglassville, TX 23%
- Marshall, TX 22%
- Hallsville, TX 21%
- Lone Star, TX 20%
- Daingerfield, TX 20%
- Linden, TX 19%
- Lakeport, TX 18%
- Tatum, TX 16%
- Easton, TX 16%
- Arp, TX 15%
- Hawkins, TX 15%
- Jefferson, TX 13%
- Cushing, TX 12%
- New Chapel Hill, TX 11%
- Chireno, TX 10%
- Hughes Springs, TX 10%
- New Summerfield, TX 10%
- Jacksonville, TX 10%
- Winnsboro, TX 9%
- Scottsville, TX 9%
- Elkhart, TX 8%
- Rusk, TX 7%
- Whitehouse, TX 7%
- New London, TX 4%
Sources
Shares and properties: USDA NRCS SSURGO via Soil Data Access, weighted by each component's share of its map units. Description: the USDA NRCS series description. How we count.