IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hagerstown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1964PA043007
  • User Pedon ID: 1964PA043007
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 64PA043007
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 64PA043007
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44238
  • 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: 40.2463890
  • Std. Longitude: -76.7316670
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 150 ft S of pole 9952, 1000 ft along private lane from T390 S of Swatara Creek, Lower Swatara Twp.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA043—Dauphin
  • MLRA: 147—Northern Appalachian Ridges and Valleys
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40076-B6—Middletown, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: F. Loughry, W. Kunkle, J. Carey, R. Googins, R. Kinnard
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed Typic Paleudalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hagerstown
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hagerstown
  • Classificaton Date - 6/23/1964
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 2.75 in/hr of percolation rate and 3.5 in/hr of percolation rate and 4.38 in/hr of percolation rate and 4.75 in/hr of percolation rate and 5.75 in/hr of percolation rate and 6.75 in/hr of percolation rate and 10.13 in/hr of percolation rate and 11.5 in/hr of percolation rate


    • SITE

  • Landscape: mountain system
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/23/1964 ()
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    MESA

    Medicago sativa

    alfalfa

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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

    7

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    104

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    225

    1000

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    10.6

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/2) interior silt loam; weak fine and medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU02444
    BA—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02445. Platiness at top; thin patchy remnants of clay films.
    Bt1—28 to 43 centimeters (11.0 to 16.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; 38 percent distinct clay films and 38 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02446
    Bt2—43 to 64 centimeters (16.9 to 25.2 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) interior silty clay; moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; 70 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains and 70 percent prominent clay films on surfaces along root channels and 70 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02447
    Bt3—64 to 71 centimeters (25.2 to 28.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/8) interior silty clay; moderate medium blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; prominent clay films and prominent clay films; 15 percent by volume quartz fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02448. 10-15% quartz fragments.
    Bt4—71 to 86 centimeters (28.0 to 33.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior silty clay; moderate fine and medium blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; clay films on surfaces along root channels and 38 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02449
    Bt5—86 to 114 centimeters (33.9 to 44.9 inches); red (2.5YR 4/6) interior silty clay; strong fine blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; clay films on all faces of peds and 38 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02450
    Bt6—114 to 142 centimeters (44.9 to 55.9 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) interior clay; weak medium blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; clay films on all faces of peds and 38 percent manganese or iron-manganese stains; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU02451
    BC—142 to 163 centimeters (55.9 to 64.2 inches); weak red (2.5YR 4/2) interior silty clay; weak medium blocky structure; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; fragments; moderately acid, pH 6.0, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU02452. Red clay films in pores.
    C—163 to 165 centimeters (64.2 to 65.0 inches); black (N 2/0) interior silty clay; friable, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 0.5 roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; abrupt irregular boundary. Lab sample # PSU02453