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Chili soil series
Chili soils cover 286,405 mapped acres, almost all of them in Ohio. 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 0%.
It is the leading soil series by area in 40 of the counties and cities on this site, including Summit County, OH.
SSURGO survey versions to August 5, 2026 · series description revised 2025-04
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 Chili series consists of very deep, well drained soils on outwash plains, terraces, kames, and beach ridges. They formed in Wisconsinan age outwash deposits, mainly of non-calcareous sandstone and shale with a large amount of quartz gravel. Commonly, the outwash is mantled with silt. Saturated hydraulic conductivity is moderately high in the subsoil and high in the substratum. Slopes range from 0 to 70 percent. Mean annual precipitation is about 950 millimeters, and mean annual temperature is about 10 degrees C.
Source: USDA NRCS series description (OSD) for Chili, revised 2025-04. Read it.
Engineering properties
| Mapped area (SSURGO) | 286,405 acres |
| Shrink-swell limits houses without basements | 0.0% |
| Shallow water table limits basements | 0.0% |
| Very limited for septic absorption fields | 97.2% |
| Most common drainage class | Well drained |
| Most common hydrologic soil group | B |
| Taxonomic class | Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludalfs |
| Type location | Portage County, Ohio |
Where Chili is mapped
| State | Mapped acres |
|---|---|
| Ohio | 278,885 |
| Pennsylvania | 7,520 |
Places where Chili leads
Counties and cities where Chili covers more mapped land than any other series.
| Place | Share of mapped land |
|---|---|
| Killbuck, OH | 60% |
| Holmesville, OH | 58% |
| Laurelville, OH | 50% |
| Brinkhaven, OH | 47% |
| Beach City, OH | 47% |
| Lakemore, OH | 47% |
| Malvern, OH | 46% |
| Hills and Dales, OH | 43% |
| North Fairfield, OH | 41% |
| Waynesburg, OH | 41% |
| Loudonville, OH | 38% |
| Kent, OH | 36% |
| Parral, OH | 36% |
| North Canton, OH | 36% |
| Beverly, OH | 36% |
| Bolivar, OH | 35% |
| Barberton, OH | 34% |
| Perrysville, OH | 34% |
| Gnadenhutten, OH | 33% |
| Hartville, OH | 33% |
| New Waterford, OH | 32% |
| Munroe Falls, OH | 32% |
| Green, OH | 30% |
| Canal Fulton, OH | 29% |
| Magnolia, OH | 29% |
| Minerva, OH | 26% |
| Navarre, OH | 26% |
| Canton, OH | 25% |
| Brewster, OH | 23% |
| Zoar, OH | 23% |
| Shreve, OH | 22% |
| Struthers, OH | 21% |
| Akron, OH | 20% |
| Hanover, OH | 19% |
| Mogadore, OH | 19% |
| Meyers Lake, OH | 17% |
| Poland, OH | 15% |
| East Sparta, OH | 14% |
| Summit County, OH | 14% |
| Youngstown, OH | 12% |
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.