Slopes range from 2 to 45 percent. Mean annual air temperature ranges from 58 to 63 degrees F., and mean annual precipitation ranges from 40 to 60 inches. These include the competing Pacolet and Saw series, and the Hibriten and Rion soils. These soils are on the same positions in the landscape as Bethlehem soils. Approximately half of the acreage is cleared.
Chief crops are hay, corn, and pasture.
The remainder is in mixed hardwoods and pines including shortleaf pine, Virginia pine, scarlet oak, chestnut oak, white oak, and black oak. Common understory plants are sourwood, flowering dogwood, greenbrier, sassafras, grape, poison ivy, American holly, and blueberry. This series is of moderate extent. Kandic horizon - The zone from 12 to 25 inches. This zone meets the requirements of the low activity clay amendment in more than one half the volume.