Elizabeth soils have a lithic contact within a depth of 20 inches. Surface runoff is medium or rapid. Permeability is moderate in the loess and slow in the residuum. Many of the less sloping areas are used to grow corn, small grain, forage crops. Steeper slopes are used as pasture or woodland.
Native vegetation is hardwood trees, chiefly oak and hickory.
Unglaciated parts of northwestern Illinois, southwestern Wisconsin, northeastern Iowa, and southeastern Minnesota. Lafayette County, Wisconsin, 1964. The Palsgrove soils were formerly a part of the Dubuque, deep phase, and that part of Fayette soils that formed in loess thicker than 42 inches but had B horizons continuing into residuum or that had sola resting directly on limestone. A few small areas of this soil are mapped in glaciated areas where the glacial drift is very thin and has not contributed significantly to the regolith. Unpublished pedon data for particle size from two pedons are on file in the Illinois State Office.