Chagrin soils are on flood plains receiving alluvium mainly from upland areas of sandstone, siltstone, shale, limestone, and low-lime glacial drift. They are typically in areas of Wisconsinan Age glaciation but also occur in unglaciated valleys. Slope gradients are 0 to 3 percent. The poorly drained and very poorly drained Holly soils, moderately well drained Lobdell soils, and somewhat poorly drained Orrville soils are in a toposequence with the well drained Chagrin soils. Holly soils are in wet depressions, and Lobdell and Orrville soils are in intermediate landscape positions between Holly soils and the higher-lying Chagrin soils.
Surface runoff is slow and permeability is moderate.
The dominant use is for woodland and pasture. Some of the Chagrin soils are cleared and used for growing crops, chiefly corn, soybeans, and hay. Native vegetation is hardwood forest which consists chiefly of beech, hickory, sugar maple, ash, and sycamore. The series is of large extent, about 130,000 acres. Lake County, Ohio, 1925.