IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hagerstown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2005PA071001
  • User Pedon ID: S2005PA071001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 06N0523
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 17769
  • 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: 40.2279167
  • Std. Longitude: -76.1628647
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Lancaster County, PA, West Cocalico Twp, N. Wenger farm on 1325 Wollups Hill Road, 130 ft west of Wollups Hill Road and 75 feet North of the Farm Lane.
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA071—Lancaster
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FRE—Frederick, Maryland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA071—Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40076-B2—Ephrata, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: EW, KK, MS
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hagerstown
  • PSC - 33 to 83 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/17/2015
  • Classifier - David Verdone
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hagerstown
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • PSC - 33 to 84 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/2005
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - ninth edition
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 2
  • QA Status: level 2


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: weakly coherent slight weathered limestone, unspecified
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/1/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - partly cloudy
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—33

    33—168

    —33—

    —135—
    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

    3

    —

    73

    —

    —

    135

    1219

    —

    —

    10

    —

    —

    10.5

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    —

    —

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    Ap1—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) interior silt loam; 18 percent sand; 23 percent clay; moderate medium granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 2.0 very fine and fine roots throughout and 1.0 medium roots throughout; 5.0 medium tubular and 5.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat very angular 2-?-75 millimeter quartz fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, bromthymol blue; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 06N02045; moist when described; observed in trench
    Ap2—13 to 33 centimeters (5.1 to 13.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; 18 percent sand; 25 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; moderate permeability; 1.0 medium roots throughout and 2.0 fine roots throughout; 5.0 medium tubular and 5.0 fine tubular pores; 5 percent by volume nonflat very angular 2-?-75 millimeter quartz fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; abrupt smooth boundary.; moist when described; observed in trench
    Bt1—33 to 74 centimeters (13.0 to 29.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; 15 percent sand; 39 percent clay; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, very sticky, very plastic; moderate permeability; 2.0 very fine roots between peds and 1.0 fine roots between peds; 5.0 medium tubular pores; 4 percent distinct brown (7.5YR 4/3), moist, organic stains on surfaces along pores and 20 percent distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 3 percent coarse prominent irregular black (N 2/), moist, manganese coatings on horizontal faces of peds; 3 percent by volume nonflat very angular 2-?-75 millimeter quartz fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; diffuse irregular boundary. Lab sample # 06N02046; moist when described; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 307343; continuous - phpvsfiid 307345; continuous - phpvsfiid 307343; continuous - phpvsfiid 307345
    Bt2—74 to 137 centimeters (29.1 to 53.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior silty clay; 10 percent sand; 40 percent clay; moderate very coarse subangular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, very sticky, very plastic; moderate permeability; 1.0 very fine roots between peds; 1.0 coarse tubular pores; 25 percent distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent coarse prominent irregular black (N 2/), moist, manganese coatings on horizontal faces of peds; 3 percent by volume nonflat very angular 2-?-75 millimeter quartz fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, bromthymol blue; diffuse irregular boundary. Lab sample # 06N02047; moist when described; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 307451; continuous - phpvsfiid 307451
    Bt3—137 to 168 centimeters (53.9 to 66.1 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; 15 percent sand; 37 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 1.0 fine tubular pores; 30 percent prominent yellowish red (5YR 5/8), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 7 percent coarse prominent irregular black (N 2/), moist, manganese coatings on horizontal faces of peds; 2 percent by volume nonflat very angular 2-?-75 millimeter quartz fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # 06N02048; moist when described; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 307452; continuous - phpvsfiid 307452
    C—168 to 203 centimeters (66.1 to 79.9 inches); 50 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior and 30 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior and 20 percent brown (7.5YR 4/2) interior clay loam; 25 percent sand; 32 percent clay; weak very coarse platy structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; moderate permeability; 1 percent faint strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent by volume flat subrounded 2-?-150 millimeter carbonate rock, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, bromthymol blue. Lab sample # 06N02049; moist when described; observed in trench. continuous - phpvsfiid 307453; continuous - phpvsfiid 307453