IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Manor
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 481
  • User Pedon ID: 1978PA071028
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 481
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 78PA071028
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44411
  • Print Date: 4/1/2025

    • 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: 39.7591667
  • Std. Longitude: -76.1855556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 7 mi S of Wakefield, 300 ft SW of Pilotown Rd., across from Goat Hill and Pilotown Rd. intersection.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA071—Lancaster
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39076-G2—Wakefield, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E. Ciolkosz, I. Ratcliff, B. Custer, E. Merkle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Dystric Eutrochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 28
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Manor
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/20/2014
  • Classifier - David Verdone
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Manor
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1978
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: not certified
  • QC Status: level 2
  • QA Status: level 2


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1978 ()
  • 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

    MESA

    Medicago sativa

    alfalfa

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    moderately coherent

    196 - 231

    - 35 -

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

    ochric epipedon

    cambic horizon

    paralithic contact

    paralithic materials

    0—25

    25—51

    196—231

    196—231

    —25—

    —26—

    —35—

    —35—
    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

    5

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    —

    131

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    225

    1100

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    10.7

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    Ap1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior loam; 38 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 17 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 roots; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.0, unspecified; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03728. Field texture was a silt loam.
    Ap2—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior loam; 39 percent sand; 45 percent silt; 16 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 roots; 5 percent by volume schist, acidic fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03729. Field texture was a silt loam.
    Bw—25 to 51 centimeters (9.8 to 20.1 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) interior loam; 47 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 12 percent clay; moderate medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 roots; 5 percent by volume schist, acidic fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03730. Field texture was a silt loam.
    BC1—51 to 69 centimeters (20.1 to 27.2 inches); light brown (7.5YR 6/3) interior and yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior and very dark gray (5YR 3/1) interior fine sandy loam; 53 percent sand; 42 percent silt; 6 percent clay; weak fine platy structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 roots; 10 percent by volume schist, acidic fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.8, unspecified; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03731. Variegated with (5YR 5/6) and (5YR 3/1).; Field texture was a silt loam.
    BC2—69 to 84 centimeters (27.2 to 33.1 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4) interior and reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior sandy loam; 58 percent sand; 38 percent silt; 4 percent clay; weak coarse platy structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 roots; 10 percent by volume schist, acidic fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03732. Variegated with 5YR 5/4; structure is bedrock controlled.; Field texture was a silt loam.
    C1—84 to 94 centimeters (33.1 to 37.0 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/4) interior fine sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 4 percent clay; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 3.0 roots; 10 percent by volume schist, acidic fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, unspecified; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03733. Field texture was a silt loam.
    C2—94 to 135 centimeters (37.0 to 53.1 inches); reddish yellow (5YR 6/6) interior and red (2.5YR 5/6) interior sandy loam; 60 percent sand; 36 percent silt; 4 percent clay; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; 15 percent by volume schist, acidic fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03734. Field texture was a gravelly loam.
    C3—135 to 165 centimeters (53.1 to 65.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior sandy loam; 64 percent sand; 33 percent silt; 3 percent clay; structureless massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; 25 percent by volume schist, acidic fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, unspecified; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03735. Field texture was a gravelly silt loam.
    C4—165 to 196 centimeters (65.0 to 77.2 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/4) interior and yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior coarse sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 28 percent silt; 3 percent clay; structureless massive; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, unspecified; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03736. Field texture was a gravelly silt loam.
    Cr—196 to 231 centimeters (77.2 to 90.9 inches); light reddish brown (5YR 6/4) interior and yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior coarse sandy loam; 70 percent sand; 28 percent silt; 3 percent clay; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.2, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU03737. Something about schist.; Field texture was a gravelly silt loam.