IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hagerstown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1963PA027005
  • User Pedon ID: 1963PA027005
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 1963PA027005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 63PA027005
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 43544
  • Print Date: 6/1/2024

    • 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: 40.7869444
  • Std. Longitude: -77.7386111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Hennings farm on Twp Rd N of Rt 322 near Jct of Rt 45 and 14020 leading to top of hill from 45, Harris Twp.
  • Map Unit: HaA—HaA—Hagerstown silt loam, 0 to 3 percent slopes
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA027—Centre
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-MIL—Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: PA027—Centre County, Pennsylvania
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40077-G7—State College, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J. Carey and B. Henry
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hagerstown
  • PSC - 23 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eighth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hagerstown
  • Classificaton Date - 8/18/1963
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Current Crop - alfalfa
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 1.81 in/hr of percolation rate and 2.13 in/hr of percolation rate and 5.38 in/hr of percolation rate and 5.44 in/hr of percolation rate and 5.88 in/hr of percolation rate and 6.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 7.63 in/hr of percolation rate and 9.88 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: middle third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent moderate weathered limestone, unspecified at 173cm with 10 to <45 and a strike of 50 degrees
  • Geology: Benner Through Loysburg formation.
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/18/1963 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - sunny
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    MESA

    PHLEU

    Medicago sativa

    Phleum

    alfalfa

    timothy

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    Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

    strongly coherent

    173 - 198

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    argillic horizon

    23—100

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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

    2

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    368

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    180

    1000

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    9.3

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) interior silt loam; weak fine granular, and weak fine and medium platy structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 5.0 roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU01180
    Bt1—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior silty clay; moderate fine blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 roots; clay films and 14 percent distinct manganese or iron-manganese stains; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01181. patchy - phpvsfiid 532067; patchy - phpvsfiid 532067
    Bt2—43 to 66 centimeters (16.9 to 26.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silty clay; moderate medium blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 5.0 roots; distinct clay films and 14 percent prominent manganese or iron-manganese stains; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.4, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU01182
    Bt3—66 to 79 centimeters (26.0 to 31.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silty clay; weak coarse blocky, and weak very coarse prismatic structure; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 roots; distinct clay films on all faces of peds and 14 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU01183. Thick coatings on larger surfaces.
    Bt4—79 to 107 centimeters (31.1 to 42.1 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior and brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) interior and reddish brown (2.5YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; weak very coarse prismatic structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 roots; prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 5 percent by volume limestone, unspecified fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; gradual irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU01184. Reddish brown (2.5Y 5/4) ghosts; coats are patchy on interior.
    BC—107 to 135 centimeters (42.1 to 53.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; weak very coarse prismatic, and massive; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent by volume limestone, unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU01185. Weak red (2.5Y 5/2) soft limestone fragments.
    C—135 to 173 centimeters (53.1 to 68.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior and strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) interior channery silty clay loam; structureless massive, and very fine blocky; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 14 percent prominent clay films; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU01186. 30%-60% rock fragments; weak red (2.5Y 5/2) soft limestone fragments; very dark gray (7.5YR 3/0) limestone or dolomite fragments.; patchy - phpvsfiid 532075; patchy - phpvsfiid 532075
    R—173 to 198 centimeters (68.1 to 78.0 inches); very dark gray (N 3/0) bedrock; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU01187. "Weathering rind around limestone (5YR 4/6), 0-10mm silty clay pH 7.1; 10-16mm silt pH 7.2; 16-23mm silt pH 7.2; Effervesces with HCl; R-O (outside) 0-10mm light olive brown (2.5Y 5/6); 10-16mm pale brown (10YR 6/3); 16-23mm light brownish gray (2.5Y 6/2)