IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Opequon
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1967PA061006
  • User Pedon ID: 1967PA061006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 394
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 67PA061006
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44314
  • Print Date: 4/28/2025

    • 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: 40.5891810
  • Std. Longitude: -78.0294227
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1.3 mi NW of Petersburg, David Glemson Farm.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA061—Huntingdon
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40078-E1—Alexandria, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Carey
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Clayey-skeletal, illitic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Opequon
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Corydon
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/6/1967
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 0.19 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 1.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 6.38 in/hr of percolation rate and 6.94 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

  • Vegplot Text Note(s): NASIS Site Name (MLRA06_Morgantown) was transferred over (MLRA12_Amherst) to align with the new USDA-NRCS SPSD Regional Office boundaries. The MLRA12-Amherst NASIS Site will eventually be renamed as the Northeast NASIS Site.

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/6/1967 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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

    POPR

    Poa pratensis

    Kentucky bluegrass

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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

    20

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    270

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    Ap1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine platy structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5 percent by volume limestone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02960
    Ap2—8 to 15 centimeters (3.1 to 5.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; strong fine blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5 percent by volume limestone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02961
    Bt1—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior and brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior channery silty clay; strong medium blocky structure; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; faint clay films on surfaces along root channels and clay films on all faces of peds; 40 percent by volume limestone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02962. continuous - phpvsfiid 533175; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 533176; continuous - phpvsfiid 533175; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 533176
    Bt2—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior very channery silty clay; strong fine and medium blocky structure; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; faint clay films on all faces of peds and prominent clay films on surfaces along root channels; 70 percent by volume limestone, unspecified fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU02963. continuous - phpvsfiid 533177; continuous - phpvsfiid 533177
    Bt3—46 to 66 centimeters (18.1 to 26.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior very channery silty clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 80 percent by volume limestone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU02964. Friable to firm moist consistence; continuous - phpvsfiid 533179; continuous - phpvsfiid 533179
    R—66 to 81 centimeters (26.0 to 31.9 inches); fragments. Lab sample # PSU02965. Blocky blue limestone.