La Farge and Norden soils are nearby on similar landscape positions where the sandstone is glauconitic. Sylvester soils are on similar landscape positions where the surface layer is thicker and darker colored. Runoff is medium to rapid. Permeability is moderate in the in the silty and loamy mantle, rapid in the sandy residuum, and moderately slow or moderate in the sandstone. Many of the less sloping areas are used for cropland.
Common crops are corn, small grain, and hay.
Other areas are used for woodland or pastureland. Native vegetation is mixed hardwood forest. Common trees are northern red oak, black oak, white oak, and shagbark hickory. West central and southwestern Wisconsin, northern Illinois, southeastern Minnesota, and in Iowa. Gale soils are of large extent.