Orwood soils lack coarse fragments. Waucoma soils have clay or silty clay IIB horizon. The Lydick soils are on nearly level to gently sloping topography. Slopes are commonly 0 to 6 percent. The regolith is glacial outwash that is fairly high in shale and low in carbonates.
Summers are hot and winters are cold.
Mean annual temperature ranges from 45 to 57 degrees F., and average annual precipitation from 30 to 40 inches. Alida soils, a wetter member of the same drainage sequence, is the commonest associate. Others are the Door, Tracy , Hanna and Quinn soils. Surface runoff is slow to very slow. Permeability is moderate.