IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Letort
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 487
  • User Pedon ID: 1982PA071039
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 487
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 82PA071039
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44417
  • Print Date: 4/21/2025

    • 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: 39.9883333
  • Std. Longitude: -76.4019444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1000 ft NW of Letort Manor Housing Dvlptmt, 500 ft E of house, 35 ft NW of lane at large sycamore; Barley frm
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA071—Lancaster
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39076-H4—Safe Harbor, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G. Martin and E. Merkel
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed Hapludults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 39
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Letort
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Letort
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/1982
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/15/1982 ()
  • 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

    ZEMA

    Zea mays

    corn

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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

    2

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    101

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    135

    1000

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    10.8

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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03779. 75%
    Bt1—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; faint clay films; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03780. 75%; patchy - phpvsfiid 533674; patchy - phpvsfiid 533674
    Bt2—25 to 53 centimeters (9.8 to 20.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; faint clay films; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03781. 75%; patchy - phpvsfiid 533675; patchy - phpvsfiid 533675
    Bt3—53 to 79 centimeters (20.9 to 31.1 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) interior silt loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; faint clay films; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03782. 75%; patchy - phpvsfiid 533676; patchy - phpvsfiid 533676
    Bt4—79 to 114 centimeters (31.1 to 44.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; faint clay films; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03783. patchy - phpvsfiid 533677; patchy - phpvsfiid 533677
    BC—114 to 150 centimeters (44.9 to 59.1 inches); dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) interior silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03784
    Ct—150 to 190 centimeters (59.1 to 74.8 inches); dark olive gray (5Y 3/2) interior silt loam; structureless massive; firm, slightly sticky, nonplastic; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03785. 200 3/4-3 inches
    Cr—190 to 210 centimeters (74.8 to 82.7 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) interior silt loam; structureless massive; firm, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU03786. Thin streaks of 10YR 5/6; 200 3/4-3 inches.