IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Honeygrove
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 73-FWG-02
  • User Pedon ID: S1973OR011004
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 73-FWG-02
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 73C0004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44088
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 43.3898048
  • Std. Longitude: -124.0998001
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 25S
  • Range: 12W
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: 2200 feet south and 300 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: On the east side of Glass Road, one mile north of the Allegany Road, about 6 miles east of Fairview, Oregon.
  • Map Unit: 30E—Honeygrove silty clay loam, 30 to 50 percent slopes
  • State: Oregon
  • County: OR011—Coos
  • MLRA: 1—Northern Pacific Coast Range, Foothills, and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: OR011—Coos County, Oregon
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43124-D1—Allegany, Oregon

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Fred W. Gelderman
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, mesic Typic Palehumults
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Honeygrove
  • PSC - 48 to 98 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/7/2009
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Honeygrove
  • Classificaton Date - 5/8/1973
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium derived from sandstone and siltstone
  • Landform: ridge
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Complexity: complex
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/8/1973 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: COB2HH125
  • Surface Water Kind: none observed
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - conifers
  • 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

    ALRU2

    GASH

    POMU

    PSME

    THPL

    VAOV2

    Alnus rubra

    Gaultheria shallon

    Polystichum munitum

    Pseudotsuga menziesii

    Thuja plicata

    Vaccinium ovatum

    red alder

    salal

    western swordfern

    Douglas-fir

    western redcedar

    California huckleberry

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    argillic horizon

    48—124

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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

    15

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    120

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    270

    1778

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    11

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    Oi—0 to 3 centimeters (0.0 to 1.2 inches); slightly decomposed plant material; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 73C00022; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A1—3 to 11 centimeters (1.2 to 4.3 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/2) silt loam; 21 percent sand; 62 percent silt; 18 percent clay; strong very fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 10.0 very fine irregular and 10.0 very fine irregular pores; 10 percent medium spherical weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries in matrix and 10 percent fine distinct irregular weakly coherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with sharp boundaries in matrix; 5 percent by volume 2-?-5 millimeter charcoal fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 73C00022; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    A2—11 to 28 centimeters (4.3 to 11.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) silt loam; 26 percent sand; 52 percent silt; 22 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; very friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 10.0 very fine roots throughout and 10.0 fine roots throughout; 7.0 very fine irregular and 7.0 very fine irregular pores; 15 percent medium spherical weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese nodules in matrix; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, chlorophenol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 73C00023; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    B1—28 to 51 centimeters (11.0 to 20.1 inches); 50 percent dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) and 50 percent dark red (2.5YR 3/6) silty clay; 13 percent sand; 41 percent silt; 47 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 4.0 very fine roots throughout and 4.0 fine roots throughout; 0.3 very fine irregular and 0.3 very fine tubular pores; 3 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent medium spherical weakly coherent cemented iron-manganese nodules with sharp boundaries in matrix; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, chlorophenol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 73C00024; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt21—51 to 77 centimeters (20.1 to 30.3 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay; 14 percent sand; 39 percent silt; 48 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 very fine roots throughout and 0.5 fine roots throughout; 0.3 very fine irregular and 0.3 very fine tubular pores; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, chlorophenol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 73C00025; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt22—77 to 97 centimeters (30.3 to 38.2 inches); reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 14 percent sand; 46 percent silt; 40 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.4 very fine roots throughout; 4.0 very fine tubular and 0.3 very fine irregular pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, chlorophenol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 73C00026; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bt23—97 to 127 centimeters (38.2 to 50.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) silty clay loam; 17 percent sand; 47 percent silt; 36 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.1 very fine roots throughout; 0.1 very fine irregular and 0.1 very fine tubular pores; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, chlorophenol red; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # 73C00027; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    B3—127 to 150 centimeters (50.0 to 59.1 inches); 98 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) and 2 percent yellowish red (5YR 5/6) clay loam; 21 percent sand; 48 percent silt; 31 percent clay; structureless massive; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 10 percent by volume weakly coherent cemented 2-?-10 millimeter sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, chlorophenol red. Lab sample # 73C00028; moist when described; observed in pit, small