IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Queponco
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 329
  • User Pedon ID: S1959PA045001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 329
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 59PA045001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44242
  • 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: 39.8472222
  • Std. Longitude: -75.5225000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1 mi SE of Johnson's corner, 0.75 mi N of St line, 300 ft N of Pyle Rd, 250 ft N of farm house, Concord Twp.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA045—Delaware
  • MLRA: 149A—Northern Coastal Plain
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-HAM—Hammonton, New Jersey
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA613—Chester and Delaware Counties, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40074-B6—Trenton East, New Jersey

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, R. Matelski, W. Kunkle, F. Blest, C. Engle
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Queponco
  • PSC - 41 to 91 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 3/4/2016
  • Classifier - Susan Demas
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Sassafras
  • Classificaton Date - 4/23/1959
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/23/1959 ()
  • 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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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—41

    41—91

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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

    4

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    128

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    180

    1100

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    10.7

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable; 0.5 roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU02477
    BA—23 to 41 centimeters (9.1 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior sandy clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 roots; 14 percent clay films; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02478. Medium platy structure at top
    Bt1—41 to 64 centimeters (16.1 to 25.2 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) interior silty clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02479. Partial clay films.
    Bt2—64 to 91 centimeters (25.2 to 35.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02480. Roots are to 35 inches; few faint streaks of grayish brown clay films light in color; partial thin clay films.
    BC1—91 to 109 centimeters (35.8 to 42.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior sandy loam, sandy clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.7, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU02481. Partial clay films; structure in bands.
    BC2—109 to 140 centimeters (42.9 to 55.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) interior coarse sandy loam, coarse sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU02482. Structure is in heavier bands; partial clay films.
    C1—140 to 152 centimeters (55.1 to 59.8 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) interior gravelly loamy coarse sand; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU02483. Some stratification of sediment.