The potential for surface runoff is low to high. Permeability is moderate in the till-derived material and moderately rapid in the underlying residuum. Most areas on slopes less than 18 percent are cultivated. Corn, oats, wheat, mixed hay, and pasture are the principal crops. Some more sloping areas are used for woodland and habitat for wildlife.
Natural vegetation is hardwood forest, consisting mainly of sugar maple, oak, and hickory.
MLRA 114 and 139. The series is of moderate extent, about 20,256 acres. Wayne County, Ohio, 1981. Mechanicsburg soils were formerly mapped as Loudonville soils in some earlier surveys. Field investigations indicate that the upper contact of the underlying bedrock in some areas is fractured with more than 10 percent soil material between displaced rock fragments.