IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Urbana
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1956PA029005
  • User Pedon ID: S1956PA029005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1956PA029005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A0361
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 32889
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 39.9558487
  • Std. Longitude: -75.6507416
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Chester County, Pennsylvania. Thomas Harney farm, East Bradford Township, in pasture east of Brandywine Creek, north of Taylor Run, 90 feet northwest of beech tree, 160 feet west of stone house.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA029—Chester
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FRE—Frederick, Maryland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA029—Chester County, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Urbana
  • PSC - 51 to 66 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/9/1956
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/9/1956 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • 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

    POA

    Poa

    bluegrass

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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

    5

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    Ap1—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak fine granular, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 21.0 roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02686. This is recent colluvium over the horizons below; many earthworms.
    Ap2—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 21.0 roots; 10 percent clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent black (10YR 2/1) dark concretions; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02687. Many earthworms; some bits of charcoal.
    A2—41 to 51 centimeters (16.1 to 20.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; 1 percent fine faint mottles; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02688. Earthworm burrows.
    B21t—51 to 66 centimeters (20.1 to 26.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) faint mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02689. Worm holes.
    B22gx—66 to 84 centimeters (26.0 to 33.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 3 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) medium faint mottles; weak medium prismatic parts to weak coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A02690
    B31gx—84 to 97 centimeters (33.1 to 38.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) silty clay loam; brown (10YR 4/3) faint mottles; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; clay films on faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; abrupt broken boundary. Lab sample # 40A02691
    B32x—97 to 122 centimeters (38.2 to 48.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) and strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) silt loam; weak medium prismatic parts to weak medium platy structure; friable; mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A02692. Glitters with mica.