IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Huntington
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2019VA107023
  • User Pedon ID: S2019VA107023
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Pedon # - 19N0697
  • 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: 39.2956278
  • Std. Longitude: -77.5630083
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In a wooded area, about 1.9 miles northwest of Point of Rocks, and about 110 feet from the Potomac River, 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-C5—Point of Rocks, Maryland

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: BM, JF
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, active, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: taxadjunct to the series
  • 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: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: metasedimentary rock, unspecified
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/7/2019 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: BM, JF
  • 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 - 29
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—47

    47—109

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    —62—
    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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    66

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    109

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; 12 percent clay; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    BA—13 to 47 centimeters (5.1 to 18.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) loam; 14 percent clay; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Bt1—47 to 80 centimeters (18.5 to 31.5 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) silty clay loam; 29 percent clay; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Bt2—80 to 109 centimeters (31.5 to 42.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silty clay loam; 30 percent clay; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    Ab—109 to 118 centimeters (42.9 to 46.5 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay loam; 28 percent clay; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    C—118 to 125 centimeters (46.5 to 49.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) sandy loam; 10 percent clay; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    B't1—125 to 157 centimeters (49.2 to 61.8 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) silt loam; 25 percent clay; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket
    B't2—157 to 200 centimeters (61.8 to 78.7 inches); silty clay loam; 29 percent clay; fragments.; moist when described; observed in auger, bucket