IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Boca
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1973FL099024
  • User Pedon ID: 1973-FL099-S50_024
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UFL
  • Lab Pedon # - S50_024
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 37744
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 26.3393421
  • Std. Longitude: -80.2378769
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T47S
  • Range: R41E
  • Section: 27
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4, NW 1/4, SE1/4
  • Location Description: approximately 0.1 mile north of Hillsboro Canal, 2.25 miles west of US 441;
  • Map Unit: 10@—Boca fine sand, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: Florida
  • County: FL099—Palm Beach
  • MLRA: 156A—Florida Everglades and Associated Areas
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: FL611—Palm Beach County Area, Florida
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 26080-C2—West Dixie Bend, Florida

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. G. Calhoun, R. E. Caldwell, FAES, and S. H. McCollum, O. E. Cruz, W. H. Wittstruck, SCS.
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Arenic Endoaqualfs, loamy, siliceous, superactive, hyperthermic.
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Boca
  • Taxonomic Class - Arenic Endoaqualfs, loamy, siliceous, superactive, hyperthermic.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/15/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/15/1973 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - artificial cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - urban and built-up
  • 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
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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches);, very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 7.0 fine roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3. Lab sample # FL5002401
    Eg1—13 to 30 centimeters (5.1 to 11.8 inches);, light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; single grain; loose; 7.0 fine and medium roots; 1 percent fine faint , moist,; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3. Lab sample # FL5002402
    Eg2—30 to 74 centimeters (11.8 to 29.1 inches); single grain; loose; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8. Lab sample # FL5002403
    Btg—74 to 86 centimeters (29.1 to 33.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2); 33 percent fine and medium distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; 0.9 fine roots; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2. Lab sample # FL5002404
    Cg—86 to 91 centimeters (33.9 to 35.8 inches); light gray (10YR 7/2); 0.9 fine roots; fragments. Lab sample # FL5002405
    R—91 centimeters (35.8 inches); and ; fragments. Lab sample # FL5002406