Fox soil series
Fox soils cover 663,035 mapped acres, mostly in Michigan, Wisconsin and Indiana. 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 1%.
It is the leading soil series by area in 8 of the counties and cities on this site, including Waukesha County, WI.
SSURGO survey versions to August 5, 2026 · series description revised 2011-01
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 Fox series consists of very deep, well drained soils which are moderately deep to stratified calcareous sandy outwash. These soils formed in thin loess and in loamy alluvium or just in loamy alluvium overlying stratified calcareous sandy outwash on outwash plains, stream terraces, valley trains, kames, and glacial moraines. Slopes range from 0 to 35 percent. Mean annual precipitation is about 762 mm (30 inches) near the type location. Mean annual air temperature is about 9.4 degrees C (49 F).
Source: USDA NRCS series description (OSD) for Fox, revised 2011-01. Read it.
Engineering properties
| Mapped area (SSURGO) | 663,035 acres |
| Shrink-swell limits houses without basements | 0.0% |
| Shallow water table limits basements | 0.9% |
| Very limited for septic absorption fields | 97.4% |
| Most common drainage class | Well drained |
| Most common hydrologic soil group | B |
| Taxonomic class | Fine-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs |
| Type location | Jefferson County, Wisconsin |
Where Fox is mapped
| State | Mapped acres |
|---|---|
| Michigan | 221,100 |
| Wisconsin | 187,313 |
| Indiana | 136,111 |
| Ohio | 79,655 |
| Illinois | 38,857 |
Places where Fox leads
Counties and cities where Fox covers more mapped land than any other series.
| Place | Share of mapped land |
|---|---|
| Sugar Grove, OH | 46% |
| La Rue, OH | 39% |
| Waverly, OH | 37% |
| Corwin, OH | 33% |
| Carlisle, OH | 33% |
| West Carrollton, OH | 22% |
| Clarksville, OH | 20% |
| Waukesha County, WI | 12% |
Other places where Fox is a main soil
Counties and cities where Fox is among the six soil series covering the most mapped land, but not the first. Share of the place's mapped land.
Counties
- Branch County, MI 16%
- Champaign County, OH 9%
- Noble County, IN 9%
- Walworth County, WI 9%
- Hillsdale County, MI 9%
- Livingston County, MI 8%
- Washtenaw County, MI 6%
- Oakland County, MI 6%
- Kenosha County, WI 5%
- Racine County, WI 5%
- Jefferson County, WI 5%
- Marion County, IN 5%
- Sheboygan County, WI 5%
- Montgomery County, OH 5%
- Shelby County, IN 4%
- Washington County, WI 4%
- McHenry County, IL 4%
- Grant County, IN 2%
Texas and Ohio cities
- Piketon, OH 20%
- Moraine, OH 19%
- Urbana, OH 17%
- Riverside, OH 16%
- Mount Vernon, OH 13%
- Milford, OH 12%
- Richwood, OH 11%
- Mechanicsburg, OH 10%
- Dayton, OH 10%
- Morrow, OH 10%
- Alexandria, OH 10%
- Kettering, OH 10%
- Fredericktown, OH 9%
- Van Buren, OH 8%
- Germantown, OH 8%
- South Lebanon, OH 7%
- Gambier, OH 6%
- Bloomingburg, OH 6%
- Miamisburg, OH 6%
- Russells Point, OH 5%
- Union, OH 5%
- St. Louisville, OH 5%
- Plain City, OH 5%
- Huber Heights, OH 4%
- Englewood, OH 3%
- Ridgeway, OH 2%
- McGuffey, OH 2%
- Arlington Heights, OH 1%
- Elmwood Place, OH 1%
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.