Oak Creek soil series

As shown in the soil map below, the numbered areas also apply to the soil orders they represent.

8: Amity silt loam Fine-silty, super active, mesic Agriaquic Xeric Argialbolls

14: Bashaw clay Very-fine, smectitic, mesic Xeric Endoquerts

53: Dayton sitl loam Fine, smectitic, mesic Vertic Albaqualfs


Oak Creek is primarily the Bashaw and Dayton soils, representing both the Alfisol and Vertisol soil orders. It also contains a small amount of Mollisol. As mentioned before, these soils are prime farmland and nutrient rich because of their high clay content.