Surface runoff is medium to rapid. Permeability is moderate or moderately rapid in the solum and slow or very slow in the substratum. Many areas are cleared and used for cultivated crops, hay, pasture, and nursery stock. Scattered areas are used for community development. Some areas are wooded.
Common trees are red and white oak, gray birch, red maple, sugar maple, and white pine.
The series is of moderate extent. Washington-Kent Counties, Rhode Island, 1934. Newport soils were previously classified as Typic Fragiochrepts.