Depth to the top of a perched seasonal high water table is 0.5 to 1.5 feet from November through May in normal years. Most of the Canal soils are cultivated. Principle crops are corn, oats, wheat, soybeans, and mixed hay. Some areas are still wooded. Red maple, beech, red oak, pin oak, elm, and hickory are the main tree species.
Native vegetation is hardwood forest.
Canal soils are of small extent. Fairfield County, Ohio, 1998. The source of the name is from a feeder canal of the Ohio-Erie Canal system. These soils were previously mapped as Fitchville clayey substratum.