Caleast, Faywood, Lowell, Maury, and McAfee soils have more than 35 percent clay in the particle size control section. Nicholson soils have a fragipan. Runoff is medium to rapid. Permeability is moderate in the upper part of the solum and moderately slow in the lower part. Most areas are used for growing crops or pasture.
Major crops grown are small grains, corn, soybeans, tobacco, and hay.
Native vegetation was hardwood forests. Sandview soils are in the Inner Bluegrass, Hills of the Bluegrass, and Outer Bluegrass Regions of Kentucky and possibly southern Ohio. The area is estimated to be of moderate extent. Marion County, Kentucky, 1986. Series name was coined from a small settlement in northeast Marion County called Sandusky Station.