Bath, Dutchess, and Wassaic soils formed in glacial till on nearby uplands. Fredon soils are poorly and somewhat poorly drained. Runoff is negligible to medium. Permeability is moderate or moderately slow in the solum and moderately rapid or rapid in the 2C horizon. Mostly in woodland.
Natural vegetation is mostly red maple, elm, willow, and ash and some sedges and wetland plants.
A few small widely scattered areas are cleared and used for growing pasture or cropland. The total extent is 10,000 to 30,000 acres. Warren County, New Jersey, 1951. Fredon soils were previously correlated in published surveys in Maine. Soil temperature regimes in Maine have been determined to be frigid and cryic.