IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hagerstown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1972PA071015
  • User Pedon ID: 1972PA071015
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 72PA071015
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44401
  • 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: 39.9000000
  • Std. Longitude: -76.0602778
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 250 ft SW of barn and 50 ft SE of utility pole 255.5 in grassed strip.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA071—Lancaster
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39076-H1—Gap, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Grice and R. Matelski
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 15
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hagerstown
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hagerstown
  • Classificaton Date - 7/18/1972
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 2.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 3.13 in/hr of percolation rate and 4.25 in/hr of percolation rate and 7.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.63 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.63 in/hr of percolation rate and 0.75 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.13 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/18/1972 ()
  • 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
    • 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

    3

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    219

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    90

    1100

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; 1 percent by volume quartz fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03649. Neutral.
    BAt—18 to 30 centimeters (7.1 to 11.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 fine tubular pores; 70 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume quartz fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03650. Neutral.
    Bt1—30 to 58 centimeters (11.8 to 22.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 fine tubular pores; 70 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume quartz fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03651. Neutral.
    Bt2—58 to 84 centimeters (22.8 to 33.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior silty clay; moderate very fine and fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine platy structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine tubular pores; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume quartz fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03652. Neutral.; continuous - phpvsfiid 533617; continuous - phpvsfiid 533617
    Bt3—84 to 109 centimeters (33.1 to 42.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior silty clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky, and weak fine platy structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine tubular pores; distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume quartz fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03653. Neutral.; continuous - phpvsfiid 533618; continuous - phpvsfiid 533618
    BCt1—109 to 157 centimeters (42.9 to 61.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; moderate very fine subangular blocky, and moderate fine platy structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 70 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume quartz fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03654. Slightly acid.
    BCt2—157 to 203 centimeters (61.8 to 79.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and weak fine platy structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume quartz fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03655. Thin continuous clay films on plates.
    BCt3—203 to 234 centimeters (79.9 to 92.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silt loam; weak fine platy, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume quartz fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.5, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU03656. Many thind clay films on plates.