IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Nimmo
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: VPI-Nimmo-6
  • User Pedon ID: V1992-VA001-107
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - VPI
  • Lab Pedon # - VPI0107
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 51810
  • 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: 37.5565529
  • Std. Longitude: -75.7362213
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Location Description: about 600 yards west-northwest 280 degrees of the junction of Highways VA-182 and VA-605 and 0.6 mile south-southeast 150 degrees of Machipongo River bridge near Quinby
  • Map Unit: NmA—Nimmo 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

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, thermic Typic Endoaquults
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Nimmo
  • Taxonomic Class - Coarse-loamy, mixed, semiactive, thermic Typic Endoaquults
  • PSC - 20 to 70 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 9/10/2009
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/10/2009 (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 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) fine sandy loam; weak medium granular structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 medium roots and 3.0 fine roots; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI01071
    Btg1—20 to 56 centimeters (7.9 to 22.0 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) loam; yellow (10YR 7/8) medium distinct mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 3.0 fine roots; 10 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores and 75 percent distinct clay bridges between sand grains; 25 percent medium distinct yellow (10YR 7/8) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI01072
    Btg2—56 to 76 centimeters (22.0 to 29.9 inches); gray (10YR 5/1) sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent faint clay films on surfaces along pores and 75 percent distinct clay bridges between sand grains; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI01073
    Cg1—76 to 122 centimeters (29.9 to 48.0 inches); gray (10YR 6/1) sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # VPI01074
    Cg2—122 to 152 centimeters (48.0 to 59.8 inches); light gray (10YR 7/1) sand; structureless single grain; loose, nonsticky, nonplastic; 2 percent by volume nonflat rounded 2-?-76 millimeter unspecified fragments. Lab sample # VPI01075