Bourbon County's SSURGO septic rating

Very limited

Bourbon County, KS: USDA's soil survey calls 99.2% of the county "Very limited" for a septic leach field. Practically, that rules out a simple gravity system for most of the county - 99.2% of it sits in USDA's most-constrained bucket. For scale: 635.461 square miles and 14,424 people call Bourbon County home.

Before you rely on this for one lot

Two lots a mile apart in Bourbon County can carry different soil, even though they share one countywide rating. The real answer for one lot is still a site-specific perc test, running about $750-$1,850 (typically near $1,300).

Budgeting for a system in Bourbon County, KS

Bourbon County's soil reading pushes the likely outcome toward an engineered system rather than a conventional one. Conventional systems run $3,000-$8,000 where they pass; where they don't, engineered alternatives (mound or aerobic treatment, whichever the health department requires) run $10,000-$40,000 - budget toward the higher figure until a perc test says otherwise.

How Bourbon County, KS compares

Among the 3,058 rated counties on this site, Bourbon County, KS ranks 68 most-constrained nationally, and 4 of 105 within Kansas.

Before you act on this

How this rating is built, and its real limits · Conventional vs. engineered septic systems