Belgrade soils are in a drainage sequence with the well drained Hartland , poorly drained Raynham , and very poorly drained Birdsall soils. Agawam , Deerfield , Enfield , Haven , Merrimac , Ninigret , Sudbury , Tisbury , and Windsor soils are on nearby glacial outwash landforms. Hadley , Limerick , Occum , Pootatuck , Rippowam , and Winooski soils are on nearby flood plains. Moderately well drained. Runoff is moderately low.
Permeability is moderate in the solum and slow to moderately rapid in the substratum.
Cleared areas are used mainly for growing grasses, and legumes for hay or pasture, and for silage. Some areas are used for growing potatoes, sweet corn, vegetables, and other crops and some are in urban uses. Woodlots are in white, red and black oak, hickory, sugar maple, red maple, ash, tulip, black birch, yellow birch, beech, white pine, and hemlock. The soil is of moderate extent. Hartford County, Connecticut, 1959.