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Ockley soil series
Ockley soils cover 284,066 mapped acres, mostly in Indiana, Ohio and Michigan. 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 11 of the counties and cities on this site.
SSURGO survey versions to August 5, 2026 · series description revised 2021-11
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 Ockley series consists of very deep, well drained soils that are deep or very deep to calcareous, stratified sandy and gravelly outwash. Ockley soils formed in as much as 51 cm (20 inches) of loess or silty material and in the underlying loamy outwash. They are commonly on stream terraces and outwash plains, and less commonly on kame moraines and eskers. Slope ranges from 0 to 30 percent. Mean annual precipitation is about 1016 mm (40 inches), and mean annual air temperature is about 11 degrees C (52 degrees F).
Source: USDA NRCS series description (OSD) for Ockley, revised 2021-11. Read it.
Engineering properties
| Mapped area (SSURGO) | 284,066 acres |
| Shrink-swell limits houses without basements | 0.0% |
| Shallow water table limits basements | 0.0% |
| Very limited for septic absorption fields | 94.8% |
| Most common drainage class | Well drained |
| Most common hydrologic soil group | B |
| Taxonomic class | Fine-loamy, mixed, active, mesic Typic Hapludalfs |
| Type location | Rush County, Indiana |
Where Ockley is mapped
| State | Mapped acres |
|---|---|
| Indiana | 146,874 |
| Ohio | 86,523 |
| Michigan | 40,043 |
| Illinois | 5,909 |
| Wisconsin | 4,718 |
Places where Ockley leads
Counties and cities where Ockley covers more mapped land than any other series.
| Place | Share of mapped land |
|---|---|
| St. Louisville, OH | 86% |
| Zanesfield, OH | 44% |
| Chesterville, OH | 37% |
| Alexandria, OH | 37% |
| Newark, OH | 23% |
| Fredericktown, OH | 21% |
| Granville, OH | 21% |
| Heath, OH | 19% |
| Xenia, OH | 16% |
| Mount Vernon, OH | 14% |
| Bremen, OH | 12% |
Other places where Ockley is a main soil
Counties and cities where Ockley is among the six soil series covering the most mapped land, but not the first. Share of the place's mapped land.
Counties
- Carroll County, IN 6%
- Berrien County, MI 5%
- Johnson County, IN 4%
- Allegan County, MI 4%
- Hamilton County, IN 2%
- Hancock County, IN 2%
Texas and Ohio cities
- Bainbridge, OH 23%
- Spring Valley, OH 17%
- Groveport, OH 12%
- Clarksville, OH 10%
- Utica, OH 9%
- Kirkersville, OH 8%
- Carlisle, OH 8%
- Batavia, OH 7%
- Lancaster, OH 7%
- Morrow, OH 7%
- Gambier, OH 6%
- Trenton, OH 6%
- Chillicothe, OH 6%
- Milford, OH 5%
- Fairborn, OH 5%
- Leesburg, OH 5%
- Prospect, OH 5%
- Camden, OH 4%
- New Paris, OH 4%
- Buckeye Lake, OH 4%
- New Carlisle, OH 4%
- West Carrollton, OH 4%
- Fairfield, OH 4%
- Hebron, OH 3%
- Jamestown, OH 3%
- Thornville, OH 3%
- Middletown, OH 3%
- New Madison, OH 2%
- Port Jefferson, OH 2%
- Harrisburg, OH 1%
- Versailles, OH 1%
- Wayne Lakes, OH 1%
- Catawba, OH under 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.