IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Houghtonville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1978VT025006
  • User Pedon ID: S1978VT025006
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1978VT025006
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 78P0345
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 45899
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • 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: 43.1638870
  • Std. Longitude: -72.6397247
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Town of Grafton, 100 yards northwest of road junction to Grafton State Forest
  • State: Vermont
  • County: VT025—Windham
  • MLRA: 144B—New England and Eastern New York Upland, Northern Part
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VT025—Windham County, Vermont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Yost and W. Sheehan
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, frigid Typic Haplorthods
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 6
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Houghtonville
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/9/2009
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Berkshire
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, frigid Typic Haplorthod
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 5/17/1978
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: glacial till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/17/1978 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    ACRU

    ACSA3

    FRAM2

    PIST

    TSUGA

    Acer rubrum

    Acer saccharum

    Fraxinus americana

    Pinus strobus

    Tsuga

    red maple

    sugar maple

    white ash

    eastern white pine

    hemlock

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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

    18

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    402

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    O1—0 to 1 centimeters (0.0 to 0.4 inches); fragments.
    O2—1 to 4 centimeters (0.4 to 1.6 inches); fragments.
    Ap—4 to 17 centimeters (1.6 to 6.7 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2), brown (7.5YR 5/2), dry; cobbly fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; 21.0 roots; 20 percent by volume unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P01817, 78P01811
    Bhs1—17 to 33 centimeters (6.7 to 13.0 inches); dark reddish brown (2.5YR 3/4) and reddish brown (5YR 4/4) cobbly fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; weakly smeary; 21.0 roots; 30 percent by volume unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # 78P01818, 78P01812
    Bhs2—33 to 48 centimeters (13.0 to 18.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) cobbly fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; weakly smeary; 21.0 roots; 40 percent by volume unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P01813
    Bs—48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) cobbly fine sandy loam; weak subangular blocky structure; friable; weakly smeary; 3.0 roots; 40 percent by volume unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 78P01814
    C1—66 to 99 centimeters (26.0 to 39.0 inches); olive (5Y 4/3) cobbly fine sandy loam; massive; friable; 0.5 roots; 30 percent by volume unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 78P01819, 78P01815
    C2—99 to 111 centimeters (39.0 to 43.7 inches); olive gray (5Y 4/2) cobbly fine sandy loam; massive; firm; 30 percent by volume unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8, unspecified. Lab sample # 78P01816