The Cygnet series consists of very deep soils that are deep to dense till. They are moderately well drained soils that formed in loamy water-sorted material 40 to 60 inches thick and in the underlying till. These soils are on beach ridges and offshore bars on till-floored lake plains.
Permeability is moderate in the upper part of the solum and slow or very slow in the substratum.
Slope is 0 to 3 percent. Cygnet loam on a .5 percent south facing slope in a cultivated field at an elevation of 775 feet. Allen County, Ohio, Sugar Creek Township, about 1.5 miles west-northwest of Gomer, about 2620 feet east and 1020 feet north of the southwest corner of sec. 40 degrees 50 minutes 53 seconds N. and long. 84 degrees 12 minutes 55 seconds W., NAD 27.