The Hitchcock series consists of very deep, well drained soils that formed in silty lacustrine material. They are on terraces and lake plains.
Permeability is moderate in the solum and moderately slow or slow in the substratum.
Slope ranges from 0 to 60 percent. Hitchcock silt loam, on a southeast-facing 30 percent slope in a forested site. Solum thickness ranges from 15 to 30 inches. Rock fragments are less than 5 percent throughout the soil. Reaction ranges from very strongly acid to slightly acid throughout, unless limed.