The slope gradient typically is 0 to 18 percent, but the range is up to 70 percent. In some places the upper part of the solum formed in silty alluvium or loess as much as 18 inches in thickness. The moderately well drained Bogart, poorly drained Damascus, and somewhat poorly drained Jimtown soils are on lower landscape positions in a toposequence with Chili soils. Chagrin and Lobdell soils are lower in the landscape on nearby flood plains. The potential for surface runoff is negligible to high.
Permeability is moderately rapid in the subsoil and rapid in the underlying material.
Most areas having less than 12 percent slopes are cleared and used for general farming, specialty crops, or pasture. Principal crops are corn, oats, wheat, and mixed hay. Steeper areas are mostly wooded, mainly to oaks and hickories. Native vegetation was deciduous hardwood forest. The Chili soils are of large extent, about 250,000 acres.