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Valentine soil series
Valentine soils cover 10,811,497 mapped acres, almost all of them in Nebraska. 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 22 of the counties and cities on this site, including Thomas County, NE; Hooker County, NE; Arthur County, NE.
SSURGO survey versions to August 5, 2026 · series description revised 2007-01
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 Valentine series consists of very deep excessively drained soils formed in eolian sands. Valentine soils are on interdunes, dunes and valley sides of sandhills. A few areas are on stream terraces of valleys. These soils have slopes ranging from 0 to 80 percent. Mean annual temperature is about 9 degrees C. (48 degrees F), and mean annual precipitation is about 51 centimeters (20 inches).
Source: USDA NRCS series description (OSD) for Valentine, revised 2007-01. Read it.
Engineering properties
| Mapped area (SSURGO) | 10,811,497 acres |
| Shrink-swell limits houses without basements | 0.0% |
| Shallow water table limits basements | 0.0% |
| Very limited for septic absorption fields | 100.0% |
| Most common drainage class | Excessively drained |
| Most common hydrologic soil group | A |
| Taxonomic class | Mixed, mesic Typic Ustipsamments |
| Type location | Cherry County, Nebraska |
Where Valentine is mapped
| State | Mapped acres |
|---|---|
| Nebraska | 10,370,704 |
| South Dakota | 431,376 |
| Kansas | 7,067 |
| Montana | 1,444 |
| Texas | 907 |
Places where Valentine leads
Counties and cities where Valentine covers more mapped land than any other series.
Other places where Valentine is a main soil
Counties and cities where Valentine is among the six soil series covering the most mapped land, but not the first. Share of the place's mapped land.
Counties
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.