IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hiwassee
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1988GA219002B
  • User Pedon ID: 88GA219002B
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 88P0517
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 60635
  • Print Date: 5/29/2024

    • 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: 33.8852768
  • Std. Longitude: -83.4308319
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: Oconee County, Southern piedmont ARS Sta. 1.2 mi W of HWY 441 on HWY 207, N-side of HWY.
  • State: Georgia
  • County: GA219—Oconee
  • MLRA: 136—Southern Piedmont

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: T.R. Gerald and R.L. Wilkes
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hiwassee
  • Taxonomic Class - Clayey, kaolinitic Rhodic Kanhapludults
  • PSC - 23 to 73 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/1/1988
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Landform: upland slope
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/1/1988 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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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    233

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    315

    125

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    17

    26

    7

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    1Ap—0 to 26 centimeters (0.0 to 10.2 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; friable; 5.5 fine roots throughout; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 88P02631. many fine roots throughout
    1Bt1—26 to 51 centimeters (10.2 to 20.1 inches); dark red (10R 3/6) interior clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 0.5 fine roots throughout; 37 percent distinct , moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # 88P02632. common clay films surface features on vertical and horizontal faces of peds; few fine roots throughout; continuous - phpvsfiid 232700; continuous - phpvsfiid 232700