IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hagerstown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1958PA035010
  • User Pedon ID: 1958PA035010
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 58PA035010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 58PA035010
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44174
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 41.0452780
  • Std. Longitude: -77.5077780
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 50 ft N of Rt 64, 600 ft E of Lutheran Church, 4.5 mi SW of Mill Hall, Porter Twp.
  • Map Unit: HeB—Hagerstown silt loam, 3 to 8 percent slopes
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA035—Clinton
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA035—Clinton County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41077-A5—Beech Creek, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, R. Matelski, W. Steputis, C. Engle, E. Mason
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed Typic Paleudalfs
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hagerstown
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hagerstown
  • Classificaton Date - 4/24/1958
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Landform: valley
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: indurated dolomite (dolostone)
  • Geology: Nittany Formation formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/24/1958 ()
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - other
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - crop shrubs
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    MALUS

    POPR

    RUHA

    Malus

    Poa pratensis

    Rubus hawaiensis

    apple

    Kentucky bluegrass

    Hawai'i blackberry

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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

    4

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    271

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    180

    1000

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    9.5

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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 0.5 roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU02025
    E—15 to 28 centimeters (5.9 to 11.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) interior silt loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU02026. Some fine platiness.
    BA—28 to 41 centimeters (11.0 to 16.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 roots; 14 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU02027
    Bt1—41 to 53 centimeters (16.1 to 20.9 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.5 roots; 14 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains; fragments; neutral, pH 6.6, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU02028
    Bt2—53 to 71 centimeters (20.9 to 28.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior and yellowish red (5YR 5/8) crushed silty clay; moderate fine and medium blocky structure; friable; 14 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02029. Boundary of this horizon chosen arbitrarily—boundary and thickness included in next horizon.
    Bt3—71 to 86 centimeters (28.0 to 33.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) interior silty clay; moderate fine and medium blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02030. Friable to firm consistence
    BC1—86 to 112 centimeters (33.9 to 44.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/8) interior silty clay loam; weak medium blocky, and weak platy structure; friable; prominent clay films; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02031. continuous - phpvsfiid 532584; continuous - phpvsfiid 532584
    BC2—112 to 137 centimeters (44.1 to 53.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) interior and red (2.5YR 5/8) exterior silty clay; weak medium blocky, and weak medium platy structure; friable; faint clay films; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU02032. Red (2.5YR 5/8) outside coat.; continuous - phpvsfiid 532585; continuous - phpvsfiid 532585