IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Frederick
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-SY-1C
  • User Pedon ID: V1985-VA173-337
  • Vegetation Plot ID: VPI-SY-1C
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0337
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51889
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 36.8059944
  • Std. Longitude: -81.6782444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: (Chilhowie topographic quadrangle); about 0.75 miles east of the junction of Highways VA-639 and VA-762 and 0.4 miles northwest of Campbell's Chapel in Smyth County
  • State: Virginia
  • County: VA173—Smyth
  • MLRA: 128—Southern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VA173—Smyth County, Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36081-G6—Chilhowie, Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Paleudults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Frederick
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Paleudults
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/23/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/23/2009 (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 -
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    DAGL

    Dactylis glomerata

    orchardgrass

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    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

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    762

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine roots; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Bt1—20 to 71 centimeters (7.9 to 28.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) clay; 6 percent sand; 28 percent silt; 66 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 75 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent medium distinct strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) masses of reduced iron; fragments; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI03371, VPI03372
    Bt2—71 to 147 centimeters (28.0 to 57.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 75 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 25 percent medium distinct reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) masses of reduced iron; fragments; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI03372, VPI03373
    Bt3—147 to 183 centimeters (57.9 to 72.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 75 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 20 percent medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron and 20 percent medium distinct black (10YR 2/1) manganese masses; fragments. Lab sample # VPI03373