Permeability is moderate. About 60 percent is cleared and in pasture. Most of the remaining acreage is in mixed hardwoods. Native trees were mainly red, black and white oak, sugar maple, yellow poplar, white ash, basswood, shagbark hickory, black walnut, and black locust. Mainly eastern part of the Allegheny Plateau in West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, possible in Kentucky.
Extent is moderate.
Monroe County, West Virginia, 1925. Ochric epipedon - the zone from the surface to a depth of 9 inches. Argillic horizon - the zone from 9 to 36 inches.