Delanco, Elsinboro, and Kinkora soils are on terraces. Surface runoff is slow. Permeability is moderate in the solum and moderate to moderately rapid in the underlying material. The majority of the areas of Comus soils are used as pasture or are cultivated. Corn and soybeans are the principle crops.
Native vegetation is Northern red oak, yellow poplar, red maple and black walnut.
The series is of moderate extent. Howard County, Maryland, 1965. The Comus soils were formerly included with the Congaree series in mapping. This soil is placed in the active CEC activity family based on comparison with other soils. Fluventic udepts feature - evidence of stratification within a depth of 1.25m of the surface or to a lithic or paralithic contact.