Cynthiana, Fairmount, and Faywood soils are less than 40 inches to bedrock. Maury soils have sola more than 60 inches thick. Shelbyville soils have less than 35 percent in their particle-size control sections. Runoff is medium and permeabilty is moderately slow. Nearly all is used for pasture, hay, corn, tobacco, and small grains.
Native vegetation is chiefly hardwoods with grassy glades.
The dominant tree species are oaks, black walnut, hickory, ash, hackberry, elm, and maple. The Bluegrass region of Kentucky and possibly southwestern Ohio. Total extent probably is moderate.