IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hagerstown
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1977PA071019
  • User Pedon ID: 1977PA071019
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 77PA071019
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - PSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 77PA071019
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 44405
  • 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: 40.1033333
  • Std. Longitude: -76.2605556
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: 1.5 mi NE of Landis Valley to Oregon Farm Dairy near Butter Rd, 0.5 mi W to SE corner of lot 360 ft N 50 ft E
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Pennsylvania
  • County: PA071—Lancaster
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40076-A3—Lancaster, Pennsylvania

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: I. Ratcliff and B. Carter
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed Typic Paleudalfs
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PSU
  • Pedon #: 19
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hagerstown
  • Classificaton Date - 5/7/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hagerstown
  • Classificaton Date - 6/14/1977
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 2
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Runoff: very low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments: 0.00 percent
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/14/1977 ()
  • 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

    1

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    113

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    315

    1000

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    10.8

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    Ap—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) interior silt loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 3.0 roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # PSU03682
    Bt1—25 to 53 centimeters (9.8 to 20.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior silty clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky, and strong coarse columnar structure; firm, moderately sticky, nonplastic; 3.0 roots; faint clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03683. continuous - phpvsfiid 533636; continuous - phpvsfiid 533636
    Bt2—53 to 71 centimeters (20.9 to 28.0 inches); yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; strong coarse columnar, and moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; very firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 3.0 roots; prominent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03684. continuous - phpvsfiid 533637; continuous - phpvsfiid 533637
    Bt3—71 to 86 centimeters (28.0 to 33.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 5/4) interior and reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) interior silty clay loam; strong medium and coarse subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; prominent clay films on all faces of peds and 14 percent black (N 2/0) manganese or iron-manganese stains; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03685. "Pockets of dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) silty clay loam which are 0.5 to 4 inches in diameter and limestone ""ghosts"" ( material from which calcium has been leached)."; continuous - phpvsfiid 533639; continuous - phpvsfiid 533639
    Bt4—86 to 112 centimeters (33.9 to 44.1 inches); reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) interior and yellowish red (5YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, moderately sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; prominent clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03686. continuous - phpvsfiid 533640; continuous - phpvsfiid 533640
    Bt5—112 to 142 centimeters (44.1 to 55.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior and dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.5 roots; prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent by volume quartz fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03687. continuous - phpvsfiid 533641; continuous - phpvsfiid 533641
    C1—142 to 168 centimeters (55.9 to 66.1 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) interior and reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) interior silt loam; coarse platy, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, nonplastic; 0.5 roots; 3 percent by volume quartz fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, unspecified; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # PSU03688
    C2—168 to 203 centimeters (66.1 to 79.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior loam; structureless massive; very friable, nonsticky, nonplastic; 5 percent by volume quartz fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, unspecified. Lab sample # PSU03689. Less than 5% coarse fragments.