Silver Creek soils are in the fine family. Moderately well drained or somewhat poorly drained. Permeability within the control section is moderate or moderately slow. Runoff is slow. Caruso soils are occasionally flooded from adjacent stream channels.
Native vegetation is big bluestem, switchgrass, and indiangrass.
Alfalfa, corn, and sorghum are the principal crops. The acreage is of moderate extent. Sherman County, Kansas, 1970.