IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): MULTNOMAH
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1970OR051008
  • User Pedon ID: S1970OR051008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 70C0065
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43846
  • Print Date: 4/16/2025

    • 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: 45.4906425
  • Std. Longitude: -122.4778519
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 1S
  • Range: 3E
  • Section: 7
  • PLSS Details: 30 meters (100 feet) west of shed, SW corner, SE 1/4, SE 1/4, SE 1/4
  • Location Description: this site is located about 2 1/2 miles west of Gresham, Oregon.
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR051—Multnomah
  • MLRA: 2—Willamette and Puget Sound Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR051—Multnomah County Area, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: A. O. Ness
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, mesic Dystric Xerochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 8
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - MULTNOMAH
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/16/2007
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - BRIEDWELL
  • Classificaton Date - 9/23/1970
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/23/1970 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: DFO-1D-71
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • 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 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) gravelly silt loam; moderate very fine and fine granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine roots; 21.0 very fine pores; 21 percent fine ; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 70C00396; moist when described;
    B21—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) loam; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 very fine and fine roots; 21.0 very fine pores; 20 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 70C00397; moist when described;
    B22—41 to 63 centimeters (16.1 to 24.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) loam; weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 fine to coarse roots; 21.0 very fine pores; 10 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 70C00398; moist when described;
    C1—63 to 99 centimeters (24.8 to 39.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) gravelly loam; massive; friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 fine to coarse roots; 21.0 very fine pores; 30 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 70C00399; moist when described;
    2C2—99 to 140 centimeters (39.0 to 55.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) and dark brown (10YR 3/3) and brown (10YR 4/3) very gravelly sand; single grain; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 0.5 very fine pores; 50 percent by volume 2-39-75 millimeter unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified. Lab sample # 70C00400; moist when described;