Textures include loam, clay loam or sandy clay loam. Clay content is 20 to 28 percent. Sand content is 30 to 55 percent. Some pedons have tongues or pockets of sand 2 to 5 inches wide. Rock fragment content is 2 to 10 percent.
Reaction ranges from strongly acid to neutral.
These are the Batavia , Bowes , Bunceton , Churchtown , Deroin , Downs , Ella , Festina , Frankville , Gladek , Greenbush , Harvard , Hersey , Juda , Knox , Luana , Mannon , Massbach , Mellot, Mt. Carroll , Myrtle , Nasset , Newhouse , Shelbyville , Watkins and Yutan series. Batavia soils formed in 40 to 60 inches of loess and underlying loamy stratified outwash or glacial till. Bowes soils contain more than 60 percent sand in the lower part of the series control section. Bunceton soils have a brittle horizon within 40 inches. Churchtown soils contain less than 10 percent sand in the lower part of the series control section.