IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Blairton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1965PA055007
  • User Pedon ID: 1965PA055007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 359
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 65PA055007
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44275
  • Print Date: 5/5/2025
  • 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: 39.9813889
  • Std. Longitude: -77.7477778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Flohr farm; 210 ft SW of Tel. pole No. 43, 0.85 mi NE of Freys, Hamilton Twp.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA055—Franklin
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA055—Franklin County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39077-H6—Chambersburg, Pennsylvania
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Noll, R. Long
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active Oxyaquic Hapludults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Blairton
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Berks
  • Classificaton Date - 3/22/1965
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0 in/hr of percolation rate and 0 in/hr of percolation rate and 0 in/hr of percolation rate and 0 in/hr of percolation rate and 0 in/hr of percolation rate and 0 in/hr of percolation rate and 0 in/hr of percolation rate and 0 in/hr of percolation rate


  • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/22/1965 ()
  • 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

    2GP

    Grass, perennial

    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

    9

    210

    225

    1000

    10.5

    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; 20 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; neutral, pH 6.9, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU02791
    Bw—23 to 53 centimeters (9.1 to 20.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior silt loam; subangular blocky, and moderate fine blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; 65 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU02792. Structure modified by shale chips; few thin patches of silt and clay.
    BC—53 to 66 centimeters (20.9 to 26.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) interior silt loam; moderate fine blocky, and subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 60 percent medium prominent reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) and 60 percent medium prominent gray (5Y 6/1); 85 percent by volume shale, acid fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU02793. Pockets and lenses; few thin patches of silt and clay on and between coarse fragments.
    R—66 to 81 centimeters (26.0 to 31.9 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior and olive gray (5Y 4/2) interior; fragments. Lab sample # PSU02794. Shale with light gray (2.5Y 7/2) silt and clay deposits between bedding planes and fractures.