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Victoria soil series
Victoria soils cover 785,024 mapped acres, almost all of them in Texas. USDA rates shrink-swell a limit for houses without basements on 99% of that land, and a shallow water table a limit for basements on under 1%.
It is the leading soil series by area in 16 of the counties and cities on this site, including Nueces County, TX; Refugio County, TX; San Patricio County, TX.
SSURGO survey versions to August 5, 2026 · series description revised 2014-10
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 Victoria series consists of very deep, well drained, very slowly permeable soils that formed in clayey deltaic and marine sediments in the Beaumont Formation of Late Pleistocene age. These nearly level to very gently sloping soils are on the South Texas coastal plain. Slope ranges from 0 to 3 percent. Mean annual air temperature is about 22 degrees C (72 degrees F) and mean annual precipitation is about 737 mm (29 in).
Source: USDA NRCS series description (OSD) for Victoria, revised 2014-10. Read it.
Engineering properties
| Mapped area (SSURGO) | 785,024 acres |
| Shrink-swell limits houses without basements | 99.1% |
| Shallow water table limits basements | under 0.1% |
| Very limited for septic absorption fields | 99.1% |
| Most common drainage class | Well drained |
| Most common hydrologic soil group | C |
| Taxonomic class | Fine, smectitic, hyperthermic Sodic Haplusterts |
| Type location | Nueces County, Texas |
Where Victoria is mapped
| State | Mapped acres |
|---|---|
| Texas | 785,024 |
Places where Victoria leads
Counties and cities where Victoria covers more mapped land than any other series.
| Place | Share of mapped land |
|---|---|
| Agua Dulce, TX | 95% |
| Bishop, TX | 94% |
| Austwell, TX | 90% |
| Petronila, TX | 90% |
| Driscoll, TX | 84% |
| Robstown, TX | 82% |
| Taft, TX | 46% |
| Nueces County, TX | 45% |
| Mathis, TX | 44% |
| Portland, TX | 44% |
| Bayside, TX | 37% |
| Refugio County, TX | 37% |
| San Patricio County, TX | 36% |
| Gregory, TX | 33% |
| Corpus Christi, TX | 13% |
| Kleberg County, TX | 12% |
Other places where Victoria is a main soil
Counties and cities where Victoria is among the six soil series covering the most mapped land, but not the first. Share of the place's mapped land.
Texas and Ohio cities
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.