IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hagerstown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1964PA043006
  • User Pedon ID: 1964PA043006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 64PA043006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 64PA043006
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44237
  • Print Date: 11/21/2024

    • 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: 40.2852780
  • Std. Longitude: -76.6672220
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 300 ft S of LR22013, 0.5 mi W of Hershey stadium, Derry Twp.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA043—Dauphin
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40076-C6—Hershey, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, W. Kunkle, J. Carey, R. Googins, R. Kinnard
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, mesic Typic Paleudalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hagerstown
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/25/2015
  • Classifier - David Verdone
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hagerstown
  • Classificaton Date - 6/23/1964
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: level 2
  • QA Status: level 2
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.63 in/hr of percolation rate and 5.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.13 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.88 in/hr of percolation rate and 8.88 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.38 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/23/1964 ()
  • 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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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    strongly coherent

    163 - 188

    - 25 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—38

    38—147

    163—188

    —38—

    —109—

    —25—
    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

    —

    —

    110

    —

    270

    1050

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    —

    —

    —

    —

    10.6

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    —

    —

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU02435
    BA—23 to 38 centimeters (9.1 to 15.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02436. Partial clay films.
    Bt1—38 to 64 centimeters (15.0 to 25.2 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior silty clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; 0.5 roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02437. Partial clay films in pores and on peds.
    Bt2—64 to 74 centimeters (25.2 to 29.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02438. Partial clay films.
    Bt3—74 to 89 centimeters (29.1 to 35.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium and coarse blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, very plastic; prominent clay films and prominent manganese or iron-manganese stains; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02439
    Bt4—89 to 109 centimeters (35.0 to 42.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior silty clay; moderate medium blocky, and weak prismatic structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02440
    Bt5—109 to 147 centimeters (42.9 to 57.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior clay; moderate medium blocky, and weak prismatic structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; prominent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) clay films; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU02441
    BCt—147 to 152 centimeters (57.9 to 59.8 inches); dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) interior and olive gray (5Y 5/2) interior silty clay; moderate medium blocky structure; friable, very sticky, very plastic; distinct clay films; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU02442
    C—152 to 163 centimeters (59.8 to 64.2 inches); black (5Y 2/1) interior and dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) interior silty clay; structureless massive; friable, very sticky, very plastic; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU02443
    R—163 to 188 centimeters (64.2 to 74.0 inches); bedrock; fragments.