IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Maytown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2014WA027412
  • User Pedon ID: S2014WA027412
  • User Site Association ID: SA - MLRA 2 - Chehalis River Floodplain - 25
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 15N0060
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 79500
  • 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: 46.8533787
  • Std. Longitude: -123.2720565
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 16N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4 of SE 1/4
  • Location Description: 410 meters west and 200 meters north of the southeast corner.
  • State: Washington
  • County: WA027—Grays Harbor
  • MLRA: 2—Willamette and Puget Sound Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WA627—Grays Harbor County Area, Pacific and Wahkiakum Counties, Washington
  • PEDON

  • Describers Name: D. Ufnar, E. Dahlke, M. Regan, G. Coughlin
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Ultic Haploxerolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Maytown
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Ultic Haploxerolls
  • Taxon Kind - taxadjunct
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/24/2014
  • Classifier - D. Ufnar
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - xeric
  • Moisture SUBClass - oxyaquic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


  • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Landscape: river valley
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/24/2014 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    redox concentrations

    redox depletions with chroma 2 or less

    aquic conditions

    0—88

    88—160

    88—160

    88—160

    88—160

    —88—

    —72—

    —72—

    —72—

    —72—

    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

    1

    20

    0

    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; silt loam; 22 percent clay; strong fine granular structure; moderately hard, friable, nonsticky, slightly plastic; many (8.0) very fine roots and common (3.0) medium roots and many (8.0) fine roots; common (3.0) very fine irregular and few (0.8) medium irregular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N00670; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    A2—8 to 27 centimeters (3.1 to 10.6 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) broken face, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; 29 percent clay; strong fine subangular blocky structure; very hard, firm, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; many (8.0) very fine roots and few (0.8) fine roots; few (0.8) medium irregular and few (0.8) medium tubular and common (3.0) fine tubular pores; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 15N00671; dry when described; observed in pit, small
    A3—27 to 55 centimeters (10.6 to 21.7 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) broken face, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; 31 percent clay; strong fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; many (8.0) very fine roots; few (0.8) medium irregular and few (0.8) medium tubular and common (3.0) fine tubular pores; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 15N00672; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    AB—55 to 88 centimeters (21.7 to 34.6 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) broken face, dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) crushed, moist; silty clay loam; 33 percent clay; strong fine subangular blocky structure; hard, friable, moderately sticky, very plastic; common (3.0) very fine roots; few (0.8) medium tubular and few (0.8) medium irregular and common (3.0) fine tubular pores; fragments; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 15N00673; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bg1—88 to 114 centimeters (34.6 to 44.9 inches); 55 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, 55 percent brown (7.5YR 4/2) broken face, moist; silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; strong very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, moderately plastic; few (0.8) very fine roots; common (3.0) very fine tubular and few (0.8) medium tubular pores; 20 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 25 percent medium faint pinkish gray (7.5YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions throughout; fragments; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 15N00674; moist when described; observed in pit, small
    Bg2—114 to 160 centimeters (44.9 to 63.0 inches); 55 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) broken face, 55 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) broken face, moist; silt loam; 24 percent clay; moderate very fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; few (0.8) medium tubular and few (0.8) fine tubular pores; 15 percent fine prominent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 30 percent medium faint brown (7.5YR 5/2), moist, iron depletions throughout; fragments. Lab sample # 15N00675; moist when described; observed in pit, small