IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Backbay
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-Backb-6
  • User Pedon ID: V1992-VA810-384
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0384
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 50985
  • Print Date: 1/10/2025

    • 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: 36.5665512
  • Std. Longitude: -75.8930893
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: On Big Ball Island, about 1.2 miles west of Atlantic Ocean and 1.2 miles north of VA-NC state line
  • Map Unit: 5—Backbay mucky peat
  • State: Virginia
  • County: VA810—Virginia Beach City
  • MLRA: 153B—Tidewater Area
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-RIC—Richmond, Virginia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VA810—City of Virginia Beach, Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 36075-E8—Knotts Island, Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy, mixed, active, nonacid, thermic Histic Humaquepts
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Backbay
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-loamy, mixed, active, nonacid, thermic Histic Humaquepts
  • PSC - 50 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/27/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/27/2009 (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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    Oi—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) mucky peat; structureless massive; 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; fragments; extremely acid, pH 3.9; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI03841
    2Cg1—25 to 51 centimeters (9.8 to 20.1 inches); variegated dark gray (N 4/), and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; structureless massive; moderately sticky, nonplastic; 0.9 medium roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI03842
    3Cg2—51 to 152 centimeters (20.1 to 59.8 inches); dark gray (N 4/), loamy fine sand; structureless massive; slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.9 medium roots; fragments.