IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dragston
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-Drags-10
  • User Pedon ID: V1992-VA001-062
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0062
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51140
  • Print Date: 5/20/2024

    • 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: 37.9253654
  • Std. Longitude: -75.5799866
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: about 70 yards south-southwest 222 degrees of the junction of Highways VA-693 and VA-702 and 0.8 mile north-northeast 6 degrees of the junction of Highways VA-695 and VA-693 near Makemie Park
  • Map Unit: DrA—Dragston fine sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • State: Virginia
  • County: VA001—Accomack
  • MLRA: 153B—Tidewater Area
  • Regional Office: SE—Southeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: SE-RIC—Richmond, Virginia
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: VA001—Accomack County, Virginia
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37075-H5—Hallwood, Virginia

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, thermic Aeric Endoaquults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Dragston
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, thermic Aeric Endoaquults
  • PSC - 15 to 65 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/22/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/22/2009 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • 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
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    Ap—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine roots; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI00621
    Bt—15 to 30 centimeters (5.9 to 11.8 inches); light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.9 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores and 75 percent distinct clay bridges between sand grains; 25 percent medium distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) masses of reduced iron; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI00622
    Btg—30 to 61 centimeters (11.8 to 24.0 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 0.9 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores and 75 percent distinct clay bridges between sand grains; 25 percent medium distinct yellowish red (5YR 5/6) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; extremely acid, pH 4.0; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI00623
    Cg—61 to 152 centimeters (24.0 to 59.8 inches); light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8. Lab sample # VPI00624