What are foundation conditions like in Chickasha, Oklahoma?

Reviewed by Preston · Updated 2026-11-12

In short: Chickasha has a mix of ground: about 18% high shrink-swell soil, 50% moderate and 18% low ¹. Which of these a house sits on decides whether clay swell, water, rock or soft ground is the thing to watch.

What does the soil survey show for Chickasha?

Chickasha covers about 22 square miles ² and had 16,051 people in the 2020 Census ².

Which soils matter most for houses in Chickasha?

• Teller, about 20% of the area ¹: Very deep, well drained, moderately permeable soils that formed in loamy sediments of Pleistocene age ³.
• Dale, about 16% of the area ¹: Very deep, well drained soils that formed in material weathered from loamy alluvium ⁴.
• Norge, about 8% of the area ¹: Very deep, well drained, moderately slowly permeable upland soils that formed in loamy alluvium of Pleistocene age ⁵.
• McLain, about 7% of the area ¹: Very deep, moderately well drained, slowly permeable soils that formed in material weathered from clayey and loamy alluvium of Pleistocene age ⁶.
• Renfrow, about 6% of the area ¹: Very deep well drained soils that formed in material weathered from clayey shale of Permian age ⁷.

What does this mean for houses in Chickasha?

Flood-prone soils. Floodplain soils are layered stream deposits: softer, wetter and more variable than upland soils, and they flood. See soft soil consolidation and Quaternary alluvium and terraces.

Which soils cover Chickasha?

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How were these numbers measured?

We overlaid the city limits from the Census Bureau ² on the USDA soil survey's map units ¹ and added up the area of each soil. Where a map unit is a mix of soils, its area was split by the percentages the survey lists for its major soils, so shares leave out minor inclusions and do not add to 100%. Shrink-swell is rated by the linear extensibility of a soil's most expansive layer, the survey's measure of how much it changes length between wet and dry (6% or more is high). Water table, bedrock and flooding come from the survey's map-unit summaries: the shallowest water table in any month, the shallowest bedrock, and the most common flooding frequency. Bedrock here includes soft, weathered sandstone and shale that a pier can push through, so it is not the depth where piers stop. These are mapped averages, not a test of any one lot; fill, grading and the soil actually under a house can differ, which is why a site visit or soil boring still decides a repair.

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