The Mohawk series is the best drained member of a drainage sequence that includes the Manheim , Ilion , and Fonda series. Palatine soils are the moderately deep associates. Herkimer soils are on nearby alluvial fans. Locally Mohawk areas grade into areas of Honeoye , Lansing , and Danley series and their wetter associates. Well to moderately well drained.
Permeability is moderate above the basal till.
About 85 percent is cleared, and most of this is used for pasture, hay, corn, and oats. Forested areas have northern hardwoods with sugar maple dominant. New York, in the Mohawk and Black River valleys and locally on the northern edge of the Allegheny Plateau. Total area is moderately extensive. Montgomery County, New York, 1908.