Mean annual temperature is 45 to 50 degrees F, and mean annual precipitation is 27 to 32 inches. These include the Kingston , Spicer , and Truman soils. Kingston soils are moderately well to somewhat poorly drained and the Truman soils are well drained and are on higher lying or more sloping terrain. The very poorly and poorly drained calcareous Spicer soils are in nearby depressions and low rises. These soils developed in materials that are similar to those of the Madelia soils and are members of a hydrosequence with the Madelia soils.
Surface runoff is slow, and permeability is moderate.
Native vegetation was a wet-site association of the tall grass prairie. Blue Earth County, Minnesota, 1975. Competing series and other updates will be made later. Refer to S 69 MN710 for results of some laboratory analyses of a typical pedon of this series.