IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): EMPIRE
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1960-CA-12-001x
  • User Pedon ID: 60-CA-12-001x
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UCDAVIS
  • Lab Pedon # - UCD6012001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41953
  • Print Date: 4/27/2025

    • 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: 40.8719749
  • Std. Longitude: -124.0673141
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: SE/4
  • State: California
  • County: CA023—Humboldt
  • MLRA: 4B—Coastal Redwood Belt
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: CA605—Humboldt and Del Norte Area, California
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40124-G1—Arcata South, California

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JAD
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, isomesic Typic Tropohumults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - EMPIRE
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, isomesic Typic Tropohumults
  • Classificaton Date - 1/30/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: RES
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: sandstone, unspecified
  • Geology: Soft Sandstone. Geologic Forma formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/30/2009 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, savanna
  • 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    20

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    137

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    270

    1270

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    O1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); fragments. Lab sample # UCD01588
    A11—5 to 15 centimeters (2.0 to 5.9 inches);, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), dry; loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01589
    A12—15 to 46 centimeters (5.9 to 18.1 inches);, dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4), dry; loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01590
    B1—46 to 71 centimeters (18.1 to 28.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), brown (7.5YR 4/4), dry; loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # UCD01591
    B2t—71 to 152 centimeters (28.0 to 59.8 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6), yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), dry; clay loam; massive parts to weak very coarse subangular blocky; firm; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0. Lab sample # UCD01592