Bolan, Dickinson, and Ulster soils typically are upslope from Oakton soils and have better drainage. Bolan and Dickinson soils also have thicker A horizons. Clyde, Klinger, Maxfield, Oran, and Readlyn soils are medium textured, and all except Oran soils have a thicker A horizon. They typically are downslope or adjacent to Oakton soils on the landscape. Oakton soils are somewhat poorly drained.
Surface runoff is slow.
Permeability is moderate to moderately rapid in the solum and rapid in the C horizon. Commonly cropped to corn, soybeans, small grain, and grass legume meadows. Native vegetation was oak and hickory trees and prairie grasses. North central Iowa. Floyd County, Iowa, 1989.