Soils, Soil Erosion, Soil Conservation & Crop Management
Description:
Photograph of low rent housing addition in the City of Holdenville, Oklahoma. This soil is a part of the hector series of soil classification [shallow, well drained, moderately rapidly permeable soils that formed in residuum from sandstone bedrock. These soils are on nearly level to moderately steep ridgetops and steep and very steep mountain sides]. The shaping of 10 to 30% slopes to put the houses on and the steep slopes left next to the housing. This soil usually has a clay layer under the s…
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Date:
November 1969
Creator:
McCampbell, James B.
Partner:
Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society