Wickham soils are nearly level to moderately steep and are on stream terraces in the Piedmont and Coastal Plain and marine terraces in the Lower Coastal Plain. Slopes are dominantly 0 to 8 percent but range as high as 25 percent on narrow escarpments. The soil formed in fluvial and marine sediments. Mean annual precipitation is about 48 inches, and mean annual temperature is about 61 degrees F, near the type location. These are State of the competing series and Altavista , Augusta , Cape Fear , Conetoe , Congaree , Masada , Molena , Roanoke , Tarboro , Wahee , and Wando series.
Altavista soils are moderately well drained.
Augusta soils are somewhat poorly drained. Cape Fear soils are very poorly drained and in a clayey family. Conetoe soils have arenic epipedons. Bt horizons and have C horizons of recent sediments. Masada soils are in a clayey family.