What are foundation conditions like in Woodward, Oklahoma?

Reviewed by Preston · Updated 2026-11-12

In short: Only about 0% of Woodward is mapped in high shrink-swell soil; 82% rates low ¹. The soil survey also maps bedrock within 40 inches under about 40% 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 Woodward?

Woodward covers about 13 square miles ² and had 12,133 people in the 2020 Census ².

Which soils matter most for houses in Woodward?

• Woodward, about 21% of the area ¹: Moderately deep, well drained, moderately permeable soils that formed in residuum weathered from sandstone bedrock of Permian age ³.
• Quinlan, about 15% of the area ¹: Shallow, well drained, moderately rapid to moderately permeable soils that formed in loamy residuum weathered from noncemented, calcareous sandstone bedrock of Permian age ⁴.
• Westola, about 12% of the area ¹: Very deep, well drained, moderately rapidly permeable soils that formed in calcareous, recent alluvium ⁵.
• Devol, about 10% of the area ¹: Very deep, well drained, moderately rapidly permeable soils that formed in loamy and sandy eolian sediments of Pleistocene age ⁶.
• Eda, about 6% of the area ¹: Very deep, somewhat excessively drained, rapidly permeable soils that formed in sandy eolian deposits on dunes and side slopes ⁷.

What does this mean for houses in Woodward?

Shallow rock. Where bedrock is close to the surface, lots are often cut into rock on one side and built up with fill on the other, so fill settlement and slope creep matter more than clay swell, and piers can stop at very different depths across one house. See depth to rock from borings.

Which soils cover Woodward?

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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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