The pastureBois D'Arc Ln, west of Schluter Rd.
It's still pasture. You bring the builder, or you don't. We cut the house pad, and a barn or shop pad can go in the same trip. The soil sheet for this stretch of Bois D'Arc Ln — USDA, same map as the Web Soil Survey, pulled 2026-10-22 — has five soils. Map unit 58, Mingo clay loam, 1–3% slopes, is well drained and hydrologic group D. Map unit 66, Ponder loam, 1–3%, is moderately well drained and group C. Map unit 67, Sanger clay, 1–3%, is well drained and group D. Map unit 74, Slidell clay, 1–3%, is moderately well drained and group D. Map unit 75, Somervell gravelly loam, 1–5%, is well drained and group C. Slopes run from 1% to 5%, and most of the ground is clay or clay loam.
Groups C and D mean slow infiltration. In a heavy rain the pad and the yard shed runoff, so the house pad needs finish grade, and French drains are how that runoff leaves the yard. Trenches for the electric run and the footings are dug in that clay and clay loam. Every map unit is rated very limited for conventional septic fields, consistent with the aerobic septic on these Bois D'Arc Ln homesites. Local roads and streets are rated very limited on Mingo clay loam, Ponder loam, Sanger clay, and Slidell clay, and somewhat limited on Somervell gravelly loam, so the driveway from Bois D'Arc Ln needs a real base. Exact soils vary by lot. Confirm your parcel on the USDA Web Soil Survey, https://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/, before the dig.