IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): HAGERSTOWN
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: Plowden Yard
  • User Pedon ID: S2004PA027012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 05N0356
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17685
  • Print Date: 4/27/2025

    • 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: 40.8108330
  • Std. Longitude: -77.8858337
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: HENRY LINN PSU/NRCS SOIL INFILTRATION STUDY. HAGERSTOWN, URBAN, YURI PLOWDEN'S BACKYARD IN STATE COLLEGE. JULIAN QUAD IN CENTRE COUNTY.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA027—Centre
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40077-G8—Julian, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: ECKENRODE, PLOWDEN, ELLENBERGER
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: research site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - HAGERSTOWN
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Classificaton Date - 11/9/2004
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landform: hill
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: limestone, unspecified
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/9/2004 (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
    • 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 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 5.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 5.0 fine and medium tubular pores; 3 percent by volume nonflat subangular ? to 30-? millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; 8 percent by weight of rock fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, chlorophenol red; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N02023; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bt1—25 to 40 centimeters (9.8 to 15.7 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) broken face silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 5.0 fine and medium tubular and 5.0 coarse tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular ? to 30-? millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; 16.7 percent by weight of rock fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N02024; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bt2—40 to 92 centimeters (15.7 to 36.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) broken face silty clay; moderate very coarse subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine and medium roots throughout; 3.0 fine and medium tubular pores; 15 percent very coarse prominent irregular extremely weakly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses on faces of peds; 5 percent by volume nonflat subangular ? to 30-? millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; 7.7 percent by weight of rock fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N02025; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bt3—92 to 115 centimeters (36.2 to 45.3 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) broken face silty clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.2 fine roots throughout and 0.2 coarse roots throughout; 0.8 fine tubular pores; 2 percent fine prominent irregular extremely weakly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses on faces of peds and 8 percent very coarse prominent irregular extremely weakly coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses on faces of peds; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular ? to 30-? millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; 18 percent by weight of rock fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6, chlorophenol red; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 05N02026; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bt4—115 to 136 centimeters (45.3 to 53.5 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) broken face silty clay; weak medium angular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.2 fine roots throughout; 0.2 fine tubular pores; 10 percent by volume nonflat subangular ? to 30-? millimeter limestone, cherty fragments; 8.3 percent by weight of rock fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, chlorophenol red. Lab sample # 05N02027; moist when described; observed in trench