What are foundation conditions like in Noble, Oklahoma?

Reviewed by Preston · Updated 2026-11-12

In short: Noble has a mix of ground: about 22% high shrink-swell soil, 49% moderate and 11% low ¹.

What does the soil survey show for Noble?

Noble covers about 13 square miles ² and had 6,985 people in the 2020 Census ².

Which soils matter most for houses in Noble?

• Norge, about 24% of the area ¹: Very deep, well drained, moderately slowly permeable upland soils that formed in loamy alluvium of Pleistocene age ³.
• Renfrow, about 13% of the area ¹: Very deep well drained soils that formed in material weathered from clayey shale of Permian age ⁴.
• Vanoss, about 7% of the area ¹: Very deep, well drained soils that formed in loamy alluvium of Pleistocene age ⁵.
• Grant, about 5% of the area ¹: Deep, well drained, moderately permeable soils ⁶.
• Kingfisher, about 5% of the area ¹: Moderately deep, well drained soils that formed in loamy material weathered from silty shale red beds of Permian age ⁷.

What does this mean for houses in Noble?

Mixed ground. No single hazard dominates here, so what matters is the soil under a particular house: clay that swells and shrinks with the seasons, fill on graded lots, and water around the foundation. See shrink-swell and the active zone and surface drainage and grading.

Which soils cover Noble?

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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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