IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hagerstown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1964PA027014
  • User Pedon ID: 1964PA027014
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 64PA027014
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 64PA027014
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43521
  • Print Date: 4/27/2025

    • 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: 40.8194444
  • Std. Longitude: -77.6991667
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Photo AQB 5F-93; 1.7 mi W Old Fort on Rt45, 25 deg. fr white oak at SW corner, 342 deg. from pole No.34-BT Co
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA027—Centre
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40077-G6—Centre Hall, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. G. Loughry and R. H. Henry
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed Typic Paleudalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 14
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hagerstown
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hagerstown
  • Classificaton Date - 3/18/1964
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.92 in/hr of percolation rate and 6.71 in/hr of percolation rate and 10.67 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.17 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.29 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.54 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.58 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/18/1964 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    ZEMA

    Zea mays

    corn

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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

    4

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    384

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    135

    1000

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    9.2

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    Ap—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5.0 roots; 5 percent by volume chert fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU01257
    E—30 to 41 centimeters (11.8 to 16.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent by volume chert fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01258
    BA—41 to 51 centimeters (16.1 to 20.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky, and angular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5 percent by volume chert fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01259. Thin partial clay films.
    Bt1—51 to 76 centimeters (20.1 to 29.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior clay; strong fine and medium blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 14 percent prominent black (N 2/0) clay films; 5 percent by volume chert fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01260
    Bt2—76 to 102 centimeters (29.9 to 40.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior clay; moderate fine and medium angular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; 14 percent prominent black (N 2/0) clay films; 10 percent by volume chert fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU01261
    R—102 to 152 centimeters (40.2 to 59.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) interior; 85 percent by volume limestone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # PSU01262. Clay films in linings pores and spaces between the rock; filling same as B22 up to 1/4 inch of soft weathered rock material on surface of rock; rock with tongues and pockets of B material to below 60 inches; rock light gray limestone w/ some dark spots.