IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Huntington
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2019VA107021
  • User Pedon ID: S2019VA107021
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 19N0695
  • User Project ID: 20-21fre
  • Project Name: MLRA 148 - Potomac River Legacy Sediments and Phosphorus Project
  • Print Date: 4/12/2026

    • 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: 39.1859111
  • Std. Longitude: -77.4877889
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In a wooded area, about 4.1 miles northwest of Beallsvillle, in White's Ford Regional Park, in Loudoun County, Virginia.
  • Map Unit: 7A—Huntington silt loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, occasionally flooded
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Virginia
  • County: VA107—Loudoun
  • MLRA: 148—Northern Piedmont
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-FRE—Frederick, Maryland
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VA107—Loudoun County, Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39077-B4—Poolesville, Maryland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Ben J. Marshall
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Fluventic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium derived from metamorphic and sedimentary rock
  • Landscape: piedmont
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: sandstone, unspecified
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/24/2019 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Ben Marshall
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Current Weather - partly cloudy
  • Current Air Temp - 27
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—30

    30—130

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    —100—
    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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    60

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    358

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    A1—0 to 17 centimeters (0.0 to 6.7 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) silt loam; 19 percent clay; 2 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    A2—17 to 30 centimeters (6.7 to 11.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/3) silt loam; 22 percent clay; 2 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Bw1—30 to 80 centimeters (11.8 to 31.5 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) loam; 22 percent clay; 2 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Bw2—80 to 130 centimeters (31.5 to 51.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) sandy clay loam; 22 percent clay; 2 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    C1—130 to 161 centimeters (51.2 to 63.4 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/4) sandy loam; 10 percent clay; 2 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    C2—161 to 200 centimeters (63.4 to 78.7 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) silt loam; 22 percent clay; 2 percent fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket