Boston soils occupy gently sloping to steep portions of a loess-capped, till plain. The dominant slope range is from 2 to 12 percent, but the soils occur on slopes as steep as 25 percent. Climate is humid, continental. Mean annual precipitation is 38 to 44 inches. Runoff is medium to high.
Permeability is moderately slow above the fragipan and slow to very slow in the fragipan.
The more eroded, sloping areas are used for forages, permanent pasture, or kept in woodland. A small part is reverting to woodland of poor quality. Native vegetation was hardwood forests of oaks, hickory, maple, beech, and tulip poplar. Boston soils are of limited extent but of agricultural importance. Highland County, Ohio, 1973.