Davison soils have a calcic horizon within 16 inches and are on slightly higher positions adjacent to swales. Dudley and Stickney soils have a natric horizon and are on the nearly level landscapes with microrelief. Tetonka soils are in shallow depressions, have a fine textured series control section, and have an E horizon. Moderately well drained. Surface runoff is negigible to medium depending on slope.
Permeability is moderate in the solum and moderately slow in the underlying material.
Water table may rise to within 3 feet of surface during the spring and ranges from 3.5 to 5 feet. Native vegetation is big bluestem, green needlegrass, sideoats grama, western wheatgrass, leadplant, sedges, and forbs. East-central South Dakota. The series is of large extent. Davison County, South Dakota, 1971.