Rexford soils have a coarse-loamy particle size control section and a fragipan. Walpole soils have a sandy particle-size control section. Fredon soils are level to gently sloping with slope gradients of 0 to 8 percent. They are on terraces which are slightly above the lowest depressions and stream floodplains. The soils formed in glaciofluvial material derived from slate, shale, sandstone, some limestone and small amounts of granitic gneiss.
Climate is temperate and humid.
Average annual temperature ranges from 45 to 50 degrees F. and average annual precipitation from 34 to 50 inches usually evenly distributed through the year. Frost free days range from 130 to 170. These are the Bath , Dutchess , Halsey , Hazen , Palmyra , Phelps , and Wassaic soils. Bath, Dutchess, and Wassaic soils formed in glacial till on nearby uplands. Fredon soils are poorly and somewhat poorly drained.