The potential for surface runoff is negligible to medium. Permeability is moderately rapid. Spinks soils are used mostly for hay production or pasture. Some areas are cropped to corn, wheat, oats, and soybeans. A small part is in orchards.
Steeper areas are in forest or permanent pasture.
The native vegetation is hardwoods, dominantly oaks and hickories. The series is of large extent, about 660,000 acres. McHenry County, Illinois, 1960. A loamy substratum phase is recognized. This revision of the Spinks OSD reclassifies the series as sandy, mixed, mesic Lamellic Hapludalfs using the 7th edition of the Keys to Soil Taxonomy, 1996.