Texture is loam, silt loam, or clay loam. These are the Athol , Bolton , Bookwood , Brecknock , Caribel , Carpenter , Cateache , Culleoka , Door, Dormont , Duffield , Dumfries , Ebbing , Frondorf , Grayford , Greencreek, Hayter , Lamotte , Legore , Loudonville , Manassas , Mechnicsburg, Morrison , Myersville , Neshaminy , Oatlands , Panorama , Penn , Renox , Ryder , Spriggs , Sudley , Washington , Weedmark , Westmoreland , Wheeling , and Williamsburg series. All of these soils, except the Dormont and Ebbing soils, do not have gray drainage mottles in the solum. Dormont soils formed in residuum, and have silt loam, silty clay loam, silty clay or clay textures in the solum. Ebbing soils are formed in alluvial material from limestone, sandstone, shale, and quartzite on low stream terraces.
Beech soils are on gently sloping to steep footslopes and colluvial fans.
Slope ranges from 3 to 35 percent, but are typically 8 to 35 percent. The soil formed in colluvium from sandstone, shale, and siltstone. The mean annual precipitation ranges from 38 to 46 inches. Mean annual air temperature ranges from 53 to 59 degrees F. Annual frost free days range between 165 and 185. These are the Cotaco , Dekalb , Gilpin , Latham , Sensabaugh , Upshur , and the competing Dormont soils.