What are foundation and soil conditions in ZIP code 73072 (Norman)?

Reviewed by Preston · Updated 2026-11-12

In short: ZIP code 73072 has a mix of ground: about 20% high shrink-swell soil, 16% moderate and 44% low ¹. The soil survey also maps occasional or frequent flooding on about 27% ¹.

What does the soil survey show for 73072?

ZIP code 73072 covers about 52 square miles of land and had 51,062 people in the 2020 Census ²; its center falls in Norman.

Which soils matter most for houses in 73072?

• Gracemore, about 14% of the area ¹: Very deep, somewhat poorly drained, moderately rapid to rapidly permeable soils formed in calcareous sandy alluvium of Recent age ³.
• Grant, about 7% of the area ¹: Deep, well drained, moderately permeable soils ⁴.
• Teller, about 6% of the area ¹: Very deep, well drained, moderately permeable soils that formed in loamy sediments of Pleistocene age ⁵.
• Minco, about 5% of the area ¹: Very deep, well drained, soils that formed in material weathered from loamy eolian deposits of Pleistocene age ⁶.
• Asher, about 5% of the area ¹: Very deep, moderately well drained, slowly permeable soils that formed in loamy alluvium ⁷.
• Kirkland, about 5%, is land the survey does not rate as soil ¹.
• Water, about 4%, is open water ¹.

What does this mean for houses in 73072?

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 73072?

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How were these numbers measured?

We overlaid the ZIP code tabulation area (the Census approximation of a ZIP code) 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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