IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Watertown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1985OH119030
  • User Pedon ID: 1985-OH119-030
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - OHSTATE
  • Lab Pedon # - MS-030
  • User Project ID: 20206MAT500
  • Project Name: MLRA 126 - Conotton gravelly loam, 0 to 6 percent slopes
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 40.1348700
  • Std. Longitude: -82.0110400
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Cass Township; about 1 mile north of Dresden; 1300 feet northeast of the intersection of Gene Cox Drive and Dresden Road, along Dresden Road; then 600 feet east.
  • Map Unit: WaB—Watertown sandy loam, 1 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Ohio
  • County: OH119—Muskingum
  • MLRA: 124—Western Allegheny Plateau
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MAT—Marietta, Ohio
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OH119—Muskingum County, Ohio
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40082-B1—Trinway, Ohio

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: sams, steiger
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Watertown
  • Classificaton Date - 5/4/2012
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: outwash derived from igneous and sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: stream terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/10/1985 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Margaret Sams; John Groves
  • 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
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    Ap—0 to 31 centimeters (0.0 to 12.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) Error; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0025745
    Bt1—31 to 46 centimeters (12.2 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # OSU0025746
    Bt2—46 to 64 centimeters (18.1 to 25.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 15 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0025747
    BC—64 to 132 centimeters (25.2 to 52.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) Error; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OSU0025748
    C—132 to 136 centimeters (52.0 to 53.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) Error; single grain; loose; 20 percent by volume nonflat indurated 2-35-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0. Lab sample # OSU0025749