IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Huntington
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S2020VA107033
  • User Pedon ID: S2020VA107033
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 21N0205
  • User Project ID: 20-21fre
  • Project Name: MLRA 148 - Potomac River Legacy Sediments and Phosphorus Project
  • Print Date: 4/10/2026

    • 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: 39.1370530
  • Std. Longitude: -77.5273680
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: In a wooded area, about 2.4 miles northwest of Leesburg, and about 180 feet from the Potomac River, in Balls Bluff 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-B5—Waterford, Virginia

    • 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: siltstone, unspecified
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/26/2020 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: BM
  • 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

    cambic horizon

    0—38

    38—121

    —38—

    —83—
    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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    58

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    68

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    A—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; 14 percent clay; moderate fine granular structure; very fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in auger, bucket
    AB—12 to 38 centimeters (4.7 to 15.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; 20 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in auger, bucket
    Bw1—38 to 80 centimeters (15.0 to 31.5 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; 26 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in auger, bucket
    Bw2—80 to 121 centimeters (31.5 to 47.6 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; 21 percent clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in auger, bucket
    C1—121 to 152 centimeters (47.6 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 21 percent clay; massive; very fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments; clear smooth boundary.; observed in auger, bucket
    C2—152 to 200 centimeters (59.8 to 78.7 inches); 85 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and 15 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) silt loam; 26 percent clay; massive; very fine mica flakes, unspecified; fragments.; observed in auger, bucket