In limed soils, the upper part of the solum ranges from strongly acid through slightly acid and the lower part ranges from strongly acid through neutral. Hagerstown soils are low in coarse fragments with less than 15 percent by volume. The weighted average clay content of the textural control section is between 35 and 60 percent. The A horizon has hue of 10YR, 7.5YR, or 5YR, value of 3 through 5, and chroma of 2 through 4. Thin A1 horizon has a value of 3.
Texture is silt loam, loam, clay loam, and silty clay loam or their cherty and gravelly analogues.
The B1 horizon has hue of 7.5YR or 5YR, value or 4 or 5, and chroma of 4 through 8. Texture is heavy loam, heavy list loam, clay loam, silty clay loam, clay or silty clay. Thin faint clay films are present in the B1 horizon in a few pedons. The Bt horizon has hue of 5YR or 2.5YR, value of 4 or 5, and chroma of 4 through 8. Texture is silty clay or clay, or is silty clay loam in part.