The well drained Blooming, the moderately well drained Merton, and the calcareous poorly and very poorly drained Canisteo soils form drainage sequence with the Maxcreek soils and are the primary associates. The Blooming and Moland soils have convex slopes and the Merton and Newry soils primarily have plane slopes. The Canisteo soils have slightly concave or plane slopes. The well drained Moland and the moderately well drained Newry soils are associates in some areas. Poorly and very poorly drained.
Surface runoff is slow or ponded.
Permeability is moderate. Most all of these soils are cultivated. Corn and soybeans are the principal crops. Native vegetation was a wet-site community of the tall grass prairie. Southeastern Minnesota and possibly northeastern Iowa.