Abbottstown and Readington soils have a fragipan and are more than 40 inches to bedrock. Croton soils have dominant chroma of 2 or less immediately below the Ap horizon. Klinesville soils have bedrock within 20 inches of the soil surface. Lansdale, Penn, and Teas soils do not have low chroma mottles in the upper argillic horizon. Moderately well and somewhat poorly drained.
Surface runoff is medium to slow.
Permeability is slow. Mostly cleared and cultivated. Hay, small grain, and corn are the principal crops, and some areas are in pasture. General farming and dairy farming are the main enterprises. The native vegetation was mixed hardwoods, predominantly oaks.