IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Council
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1955NC103001
  • User Pedon ID: S1955NC103001
  • Vegetation Plot ID: S1955NC103001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A5170
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 41859
  • Print Date: 6/2/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location Description: Within a clearing in a forest known locally as Hofmann Forest. The plot lies along the western edge of Whiteoak Pocosin and about three miles east of Comfort, N. C. (Ref. Trent River quad. 1:62,500).
  • State: North Carolina
  • County: NC103—Jones
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC103—Jones County, North Carolina

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Council
  • Classificaton Date - 6/15/2007
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - ONA
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1955
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: terrace
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1955 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • 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

    ILCO

    NYSY

    PERSE

    PIPA2

    VACCI

    Ilex coriacea

    Nyssa sylvatica

    Persea

    Pinus palustris

    Vaccinium

    large gallberry

    blackgum

    bay

    longleaf pine

    blueberry

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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

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    A1—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); black (N 2/0) fine sand; weak granular, and single grain; friable; 21.0 roots; fragments; abrupt boundary. Lab sample # 40A38927
    A2—18 to 24 centimeters (7.1 to 9.4 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) fine sand; loose, firm; 0.5 roots; fragments; clear boundary. Lab sample # 40A38928
    BH—24 to 37 centimeters (9.4 to 14.6 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) fine sand; massive; firm, strongly coherent; 0.5 fine roots; fragments. Lab sample # 40A38929
    B2—37 to 69 centimeters (14.6 to 27.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) loamy fine sand; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; fragments. Lab sample # 40A38930