IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Archbold
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1982FL055008
  • User Pedon ID: S1982FL055008
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UFL
  • Lab Pedon # - S28_008
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 38888
  • 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: 27.1831665
  • Std. Longitude: -81.3643417
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T 38 S
  • Range: R 30 E
  • Section: 7
  • Location Description: about 3.65 kilometers (2.3 miles) west of the intersection of US 27 and County Road 70, and about 2.8 kilometers (1.75 miles) south; about 440 meters (1,445 feet) north and 120 meters (395 feet) east of the southwest corner
  • Map Unit: 28—Archbold sand, 0 to 5 percent slopes83—Archbold sand, 0 to 5 percent slopes
  • State: Florida
  • County: FL055—Highlands
  • MLRA: 154—South-Central Florida Ridge
  • Regional Office: 7—Auburn, AL
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-FOR—Ft. Myers, Florida
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: FL055—Highlands County, Florida
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 27081-B3—Childs, Florida
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Sodek, E.W. Hopwood (IFAS) and L.J. Carter, D.L. Lewis, K. Wolff (SCS).
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Hyperthermic, uncoated Typic Quartzipsamments
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Archbold (flagged as OSD)
  • Classificaton Date - 3/21/2018
  • Classifier - Prink
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Archbold
  • Taxonomic Class - Typic Quartzipsamments, hyperthermic, uncoated.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/15/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: sandy marine deposits
  • Landscape: coastal plain
  • Landform: knoll on marine terrace, ridge on marine terrace, hill on marine terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

  • Ecological State: 1 - Sand Pine Scrub
  • Other Vegetative Class: R155XY001FL - Sand Pine Scrub—Florida Legacy Range Site
  • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/5/1982 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Sodek
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other tree 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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    2

    45

    1285

    350

    23

    A—0 to 10 centimeters (0.0 to 3.9 inches); gray (10YR 6/1), gray (10YR 6/1), dry; sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; common (2.0) medium roots throughout and many (7.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # FL2800801
    C1—10 to 86 centimeters (3.9 to 33.9 inches); white (10YR 8/1) sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; common (2.0) medium roots throughout and many (7.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # FL2800802
    C2—86 to 145 centimeters (33.9 to 57.1 inches); white (10YR 8/1) sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; common (2.0) medium roots throughout and many (7.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # FL2800803
    C3—145 to 203 centimeters (57.1 to 79.9 inches); white (10YR 8/1) sand; single grain; loose, loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; nonfluid; few (1.0) medium roots throughout and many (7.0) fine roots throughout; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9. Lab sample # FL2800804