What are foundation and soil conditions in ZIP code 74137 (Tulsa)?

Reviewed by Preston · Updated 2026-11-12

In short: Only about 4% of ZIP code 74137 is mapped in high shrink-swell soil; 77% rates low ¹.

What does the soil survey show for 74137?

ZIP code 74137 covers about 10 square miles of land and had 28,354 people in the 2020 Census ²; its center falls in Tulsa.

Which soils matter most for houses in 74137?

• Glenpool, about 26% of the area ¹: Very deep, somewhat excessively drained, rapidly permeable soils that formed in material weathered from sandy wind blown deposits of Pleistocene age ³.
• Larton, about 20% of the area ¹: Very deep, well drained, moderately permeable soils that formed in material weathered from loamy and sandy alluvium, and on eolian materials of Pleistocene age ⁴.
• Kamie, about 13% of the area ¹: Very deep, well drained soils that formed in material weathered from predominantly loamy alluvium of Pleistocene age ⁵.
• Choska, about 5% of the area ¹: Very deep, well drained, soils on low terraces of flood plains ⁶.
• Wynona, about 4% of the area ¹: Very deep, somewhat poorly drained soils that formed in silty alluvium of Pleistocene age ⁷.
• Water, about 4%, is open water ¹.

What does this mean for houses in 74137?

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.

Less clay, different problems. Sandy and loamy soils swell little, so movement more often comes from fill settlement, erosion and washouts or plumbing leaks.

Which soils cover 74137?

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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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