IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Emporia
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-Empor-0
  • User Pedon ID: V1984-VA081-239
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0239
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51159
  • Print Date: 1/30/2025

    • 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: 36.5805779
  • Std. Longitude: -77.5503845
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 0.5 miles west of the junction of Highways US-301 an VA-642 and 35 yards north of Highway VA-642, about 2 miles south of Skippers
  • Map Unit: 12B—Emporia loamy fine sand, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • State: Virginia
  • County: VA081—Greensville
  • MLRA: 133A—Southern Coastal Plain
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-RIC—Richmond, Virginia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VA081—Greensville County, Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36077-E5—Skippers, Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, siliceous, subactive, thermic Typic Hapludults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Emporia
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, siliceous, subactive, thermic Typic Hapludults
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/24/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/24/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • 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 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) loamy fine sand; 78 percent sand; 17 percent silt; 5 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 7.0 medium roots and 7.0 fine roots and 7.0 coarse roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI02391
    E—15 to 38 centimeters (5.9 to 15.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3) fine sandy loam; 66 percent sand; 23 percent silt; 11 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots and 3.0 coarse roots; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI02392
    Bt1—38 to 81 centimeters (15.0 to 31.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sandy clay loam; 54 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 26 percent clay; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.9 medium roots and 0.9 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on all faces of peds and 38 percent distinct clay films between sand grains and 38 percent distinct clay bridges between sand grains; 1 percent medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI02393
    Bt2—81 to 112 centimeters (31.9 to 44.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and red (10R 4/8) clay loam; 42 percent sand; 20 percent silt; 37 percent clay; weak very thick platy structure; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.9 medium roots and 0.9 fine roots; 25 percent distinct clay films between sand grains and 25 percent distinct clay bridges between sand grains and 50 percent distinct clay bridges on all faces of peds; 25 percent medium prominent red (10R 4/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI02394
    Bt3—112 to 145 centimeters (44.1 to 57.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sandy clay loam; 51 percent sand; 19 percent silt; 29 percent clay; weak very thick platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 30 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 35 percent distinct clay bridges between sand grains and 35 percent distinct clay films between sand grains; 20 percent medium distinct light gray (10YR 7/1) masses of reduced iron and 20 percent medium distinct red (2.5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI02395
    C—145 to 178 centimeters (57.1 to 70.1 inches); variegated yellow (2.5Y 7/6) and light gray (10YR 7/1) and reddish brown (2.5YR 5/4) sandy clay loam; 59 percent sand; 17 percent silt; 23 percent clay; structureless massive; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8. Lab sample # VPI02396