Dodgeville soils occur on steeper slopes or on similar slopes where glacial deposits do not occur above the bedrock. Hitt is the dark colored member of a biosequence containing Oneco and Woodbine series. Permeability is moderate in the loess and till and slow in the residuum. Runoff is medium to rapid. Native vegetation was prairie grass.
Known extent is small but believed to be moderate.
Stephenson County, Illinois, 1969. In minor areas parent material II has been slightly influenced by glacial melt water and thus could be identified as glacial drift.