IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Arapahoe
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-Arapa-10
  • User Pedon ID: V1992-VA001-002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50956
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 37.9050293
  • Std. Longitude: -75.5462875
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: about 0.8 mile north-northteast 12 degrees of the junction of Highways US-13 and VA-695 and 1.3 miles south-sutheast 170 degrees of the junction of Highways US-13 and VA-702 near Temperanceville
  • Map Unit: AhA—Arapahoe mucky loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, rarely flooded
  • State: Virginia
  • County: VA001—Accomack
  • MLRA: 153B—Tidewater Area
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-RIC—Richmond, Virginia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VA001—Accomack County, Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37075-H5—Hallwood, Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, nonacid, thermic Typic Humaquepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Arapahoe
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, nonacid, thermic Typic Humaquepts
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/22/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/22/2009 (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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    A—0 to 30 centimeters (0.0 to 11.8 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) silt loam; weak medium granular structure; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 10.0 medium roots and 11.0 fine roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI00021
    Btg1—30 to 76 centimeters (11.8 to 29.9 inches); gray (2.5Y 6/1) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores and 75 percent distinct clay bridges between sand grains; 10 percent medium distinct reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/8) masses of oxidized iron and 10 percent medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI00022
    Btg2—76 to 97 centimeters (29.9 to 38.2 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.9 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores and 75 percent distinct clay bridges between sand grains; 1 percent medium distinct brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI00023
    Cg—97 to 152 centimeters (38.2 to 59.8 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8. Lab sample # VPI00024