Cloverlick and Kimper soils have a thicker, dark colored A horizon. Cutshin and Guyandotte soils have umbric epipedons. Fedscreek, Kimper and Shelocta soils contain less than 35 percent rock fragments in the subsoil. Handshoe soils average less than 18 percent clay in the control section and have a semiactive CEC activity class. Matewan soils are moderately deep.
Permeability is moderate or moderately rapid in the solum.
Runoff class is low or medium on strongly sloping and moderately steep slopes and medium or high on steep and very steep slopes. Most areas are in second growth forest with mixed stands of sugar maple, yellow poplar, chestnut oak, red maple, black locust, northern red oak, white oak, American beech, and hickories. Minor species include cucumbertree, black oak, green ash, sweet birch, and black cherry. A few of the less sloping areas are used for pasture and sites for houses and gardens. Highsplint soils are in the Allegheny- Cumberland Plateau of eastern Kentucky and possibly similar areas in Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.