IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Frederick
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-SY-2B
  • User Pedon ID: V1985-VA173-339
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0339
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51891
  • 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: 36.9056611
  • Std. Longitude: -81.6110278
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: (Chataham Hill topographic quadrangle); about 750 feet northeast of the junction of Highways VA-763 and VA-610 and 0.2 miles northeast of Buchanan Cemetery in Smyth County
  • Map Unit: 16D—Frederick gravelly silt loam, 15 to 25 percent slopes
  • 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-H5—Chatham Hill, 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 - 25 to 75 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 -
    • 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); light yellowish brown (10YR 6/4) very gravelly silt loam; weak medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 21.0 fine roots; 50 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Bt1—25 to 76 centimeters (9.8 to 29.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) clay; 7 percent sand; 42 percent silt; 51 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 by volume nonflat 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI03391, VPI03392
    Bt2—76 to 152 centimeters (29.9 to 59.8 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) 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 reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) masses of reduced iron and 20 percent medium distinct white (N 8/) masses of reduced iron; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments; diffuse smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI03393, VPI03391
    Bt3—152 to 183 centimeters (59.8 to 72.0 inches); red (2.5YR 4/8) 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 reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) masses of reduced iron and 20 percent medium distinct white (N 8/) masses of reduced iron; 5 percent by volume nonflat 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # VPI03393