Westmoreland soils are on ridgetops and hillsides and are fine-loamy. Brooke, Lowell, and Wellston soils are on ridgetops or upper hillsides. Brooke and Lowell soils are fine, and Wellston soils have base saturation between 35 and 60 percent. Gilpin soils occupy similar positions, have base saturation of less than 35 percent and are fine-loamy. The moderately well drained Brookside, somewhat poorly drained Sees, and well drained Woolper soils formed in clayey colluvium on footslopes.
Surface runoff is rapid.
Permeability is moderate in the silty material and moderately slow or slow in the underlying material. Most of these soils are cultivated or used for pasture. Principal crops are meadow, corn, wheat, or other cultivated crops. Some areas are forested. Native vegetation was mixed hardwoods with oak, tulip poplar, beech, maple, and hickory as the most common species.