title: Crider (soil)
text: # Crider (soil)
  
  Crider is a soil series and the state soil of Kentucky.
  
  ## Description
  
  The Natural Resources Conservation Service describes Crider as a soil series with "very deep, well drained, moderately permeable soils on uplands. They formed in a mantle of loess and the underlying limestone residuum." It is known to be present in Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Ohio, and Tennessee. The soil is a considered highly productive agricultural soil, such that much of Kentucky's land with Crider soil is used for farming.
  
  ## State soil
  
  In 1990, Crider was named the state soil of Kentucky. It is present in 35 counties in the state, most extensively in the Pennyroyal Plateau.
  
  