The Barrington series consists of very deep, moderately well drained soils formed in loess or water-laid silty material and in the underlying calcareous stratified loamy outwash. These soils are on level to gently sloping outwash plains and lake plains.
Permeability is moderate.
They have slope gradients ranging from 0 to 7 percent. Mean annual air temperature is about 49 degrees F, and mean annual precipitation is about 33 inches. Barrington silt loam on a south-facing convex slope of 3 percent at an elevation of 627 feet. 41 degrees 04 minutes 03 seconds N. and long. 88 degrees 52 minutes 52 seconds W., NAD 27.