IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Perham
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976ME029001
  • User Pedon ID: S1976ME029001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1976ME029001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1280
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 34889
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 45.6316071
  • Std. Longitude: -67.8965454
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: town of Danforth; south of Maine Route 169 and .3 miles south on Baker Ridge Road in field on east side of road
  • State: Maine
  • County: ME029—Washington
  • MLRA: 144B—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Northern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: ME622—Northern Hancock and Western Washington County Area, Maine

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. V. Rourke, J. S. Ferwerda, and N. R. Kalloch
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, frigid Aquic Dystric Eutrochrepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Perham
  • PSC - 25 to 59 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/23/2007
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - PERHAM
  • Classificaton Date - 10/12/1976
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/12/1976 (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

    RANUN

    TARAX

    TRPR2

    Ranunculus

    Taraxacum

    Trifolium pratense

    buttercup

    dandelion

    red clover

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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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    AP—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; strong very fine and fine granular structure; very friable; 21.0 very fine roots and 0.5 fine and medium roots; 21.0 fine pores; 10 percent by volume unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A09729
    B21—15 to 36 centimeters (5.9 to 14.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) gravelly silt loam; massive parts to weak very fine granular; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine pores; 25 percent by volume unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 40A09730
    C1X—29 to 82 centimeters (11.4 to 32.3 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) gravelly silt loam; 3 percent olive gray (5Y 5/2) medium distinct mottles; strong very coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium and coarse angular blocky structure; very firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 0.1 roots; 21.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 25 percent by volume unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A09733
    B22—36 to 41 centimeters (14.2 to 16.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) gravelly loam; 1 percent light yellowish brown (2.5Y 6/4) medium distinct mottles; massive parts to weak very fine granular; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine pores; 20 percent by volume unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A09731
    A'2—41 to 59 centimeters (16.1 to 23.2 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) gravelly loam; weak thin platy, and weak medium platy parts to weak very fine and fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 very fine roots; 3.0 very fine and fine vesicular and 3.0 tubular pores; 20 percent by volume unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A09732
    E2X—82 to 117 centimeters (32.3 to 46.1 inches); olive brown (2.5Y 4/4) gravelly silt loam; strong coarse prismatic parts to weak medium and coarse angular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; 21.0 very fine and fine vesicular pores; 30 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3, unspecified. Lab sample # 40A09734