IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Farmerstown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1985OH013031
  • User Pedon ID: 1985-OH013-031
  • User Site Association ID: OH013HistoricSpoil
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - BT-031
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 72254
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: 2360 ft.W and 1000 ft. N of SE corner of Sec. 25; T7N R4W.
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH013—Belmont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: rubel, sutton, forshey
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, acid, mesic Typic Udorthents
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Farmerstown
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Shale + siltstone
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/29/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); 90 percent brown (10YR 4/3) and 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; massive, and weak granular; friable; 2 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0025658
    C1—23 to 53 centimeters (9.1 to 20.9 inches); 80 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 20 percent brown (10YR 4/3) Error; massive; very firm; 15 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films; 15 percent by volume nonflat indurated unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0025659. Random and irregular units of angular blocky structure.
    C2—53 to 117 centimeters (20.9 to 46.1 inches); 85 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) and 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) Error; massive; extremely firm; 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films; 25 percent by volume flat indurated 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0025660. Random and irregular units of subangular blocky structure.
    2C3—117 to 203 centimeters (46.1 to 79.9 inches); 50 percent grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) and 30 percent dark gray (10YR 4/1) and 20 percent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) Error; massive; very firm; 55 percent by volume flat indurated 2-75-150 millimeter unspecified fragments; strong effervescence. Lab sample # OSU0025661. Coarse fragments are mainly 10YR 5/8 and 2.5Y 5/4 siltstone and 10YR 3/1 shale.