Elevation - 2,400 to 3,500 feet. Slope - 0 to 45 percent. Parent material - glaciofluvial deposits or alluvium. Mean annual precipitation - 14 to 19 inches. Gird soils are used for irrigated and dryland crops.
Gird soils are moderately extensive in intermountain valleys in western Montana.
Classification changed from typic to calcic for Lake County, Montana final correlation, 1991. Gird soils have a frigid temperature regime and a xeric moisture regime.