IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hondu
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 04-RAW-001
  • User Pedon ID: 04OR049001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 04-RAW-001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 12/9/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 45.1048306
  • Std. Longitude: -119.4960000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5 S
  • Range: 26 E
  • Section: 30
  • Location Description: Madison Butte SNOTEL site
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR049—Morrow

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Richard A. Williams
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal Vitrandic Haploxerepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Windows Pedon
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hondu
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy-skeletal Vitrandic Haploxerepts
  • PSC - 11 to 41 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/15/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: volcanic ash and/or colluvium derived from noncalcareous sandstone and/or loess
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: head slope
  • Geomorphic Component Mountains: mountainflank
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/15/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Plant Association Name: ABGR/CARU
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ABGR

    ADBI

    ARCO

    BRCA5

    CAGE2

    CARU

    CHUM

    FEOC

    HIAL2

    PIPO

    PSME

    VICIA

    Abies grandis

    Adenocaulon bicolor

    Arabis cobrensis

    Bromus carinatus

    Carex geyeri

    Calamagrostis rubescens

    Chimaphila umbellata

    Festuca occidentalis

    Hieracium albiflorum

    Pinus ponderosa

    Pseudotsuga menziesii

    Vicia

    grand fir

    American trailplant

    sagebrush rockcress

    California brome

    Geyer's sedge

    pinegrass

    pipsissewa

    western fescue

    white hawkweed

    ponderosa pine

    Douglas-fir

    vetch

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    3—10

    10—108

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    21

    100

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    1600

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    185

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    Madison Butte SNOTEL

    SNOTEL
    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); ; fragments; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    A—3 to 10 centimeters (1.2 to 3.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), dark brown (10YR 3/3) rubbed, moist; very gravelly ashy silt loam; 35 percent sand; 7 percent clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine interstitial pores; 15 percent by volume nonflat 76-?-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 30 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bw1—10 to 35 centimeters (3.9 to 13.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) rubbed, moist; ashy very gravelly silt loam; 40 percent sand; 7 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout and 1.0 coarse roots; 1.0 very fine interstitial and 1.0 very fine interstitial pores; 15 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 35 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2Bw2—35 to 55 centimeters (13.8 to 21.7 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 5/3) rubbed, moist; extremely cobbly loam; 35 percent sand; 18 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 2.0 very fine roots throughout and 2.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 1.0 very fine interstitial and 1.0 very fine tubular pores; 25 percent by volume nonflat 76-?-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 40 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small
    2Bw3—55 to 108 centimeters (21.7 to 42.5 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 5/3) rubbed, moist; extremely cobbly loam; 40 percent sand; 20 percent clay; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 1.0 very fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 2.0 very fine tubular and 1.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent by volume 76-?-250 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments and 45 percent by volume 2-?-75 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.7; abrupt irregular boundary.; observed in pit, small
    R—108 centimeters (42.5 inches); ; fragments.; observed in pit, small