LOCATION FACTORYVILLE NYEstablished Series
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Mixed, mesic Oxyaquic Udipsamments
TYPICAL PEDON: Factoryville loamy fine sand on a 4 percent convex slope in a cultivated field. (Colors are for moist soil unless otherwise stated.)
Ap-- 0 to 11 inches, dark brown (10YR 3/3) loamy fine sand; pale brown (10YR 6/3) dry; weak medium and coarse subangular blocky structure parting to weak fine and medium granular structure; very friable; many very fine and common fine roots; 1 percent rock fragments; moderately acid; abrupt smooth boundary. (5 to 11 inches thick.)
Bw1-- 11 to 19 inches, yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) loamy fine sand; single grain; loose; common very fine roots; 1 percent rock fragments; slightly acid; clear smooth boundary.
Bw2-- 19 to 29 inches, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loamy fine sand; single grain; loose; few very fine roots; 3 percent rock fragments; slightly acid; clear wavy boundary.
Bw3-- 29 to 33 inches, yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loamy fine sand; single grain; loose; few very fine roots; very few thin clay films bridging sand grains; 1 percent rock fragments; common medium and fine faint brown (7.5YR 4/4) and distinct strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) masses of iron accumulation; slightly acid; abrupt wavy boundary. (Combined thickness of the Bw horizons is 8 to 24 inches.)
C1-- 33 to 65 inches, brown (10YR 4/3) fine sand; single grain; loose; 1 percent rock fragments; neutral; gradual smooth boundary.
C2-- 65 to 72 inches, brown (10YR 5/3) fine sand; single grain; loose; 1 percent rock fragments; few medium faint dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) masses of iron accumulation; neutral.
TYPE LOCATION: Essex County, New York, Town of Crown Point, 200 feet southeast of a point on Vineyard Road, that is .25 miles east of the junction of Vineyard Road and Pearl Street, in a corn field. USGS Crown Point, NY 7.5 minute topographic quadrangle; Latitude 43 degrees, 56 minutes, 10.2 seconds N. and Longitude 73 degrees, 27 minutes, 38.3 seconds W. NAD 1983.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS: The thickness of the solum ranges from 18 to 40 inches. Texture is dominantly fine sand but may range to sand in some pedons. Pebble content ranges from 0 to 3 percent by volume throughout the soil. Some pedons have carbonates below 40 inches. Redoximorphic concentrations are present in most pedons below 25 inches. Silty or clayey lacustrine layers are present in some pedons below 40 inches.
The Ap horizon has hue of 10YR, value of 3 or 4, and chroma of 1 to 4. The value dry is 6 or more. Uncultivated areas have a thin, 1 to 4 inch thick, A horizon. The A horizons have hue of 10YR, value of 2 or 3, and chroma of 1 or 2. Structure is weak granular or subangular blocky. They are fine sand, sand, loamy fine sand, or loamy sand. It ranges from moderately acid to neutral.
Some pedons have a thin E horizon.
The Bw horizon has hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 3 to 7, and chroma of 3 to 8. It is fine sand, sand, loamy fine sand, or loamy sand. Structure is weak subangular blocky or single grain, with weak granular in some pedons. It is commonly moderately acid to neutral, but some pedons are strongly acid.
The BC horizon has hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 3 to 7, and chroma of 2 to 6. Structure is massive or single grain, with weak subangular blocky in some pedons. It ranges from moderately acid to neutral.
The C horizon has hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 3 to 7, and chroma of 1 to 6. It is fine sand, loamy fine sand, sand, or loamy sand. Structure is massive or single grain. Reaction ranges from moderately acid to neutral.
COMPETING SERIES: These are the Abscota, Denham, Platteriver (T), and Solo series. All of these soils are from outside Region R. Abscota, Denham, Platteriver (T), and Solo soils are moderately well drained. Also, Abscota soils have an irregular decrease in organic carbon content with depth, Denham soils have a solum depth greater than 40 inches, Platteriver soils have more than 50 percent medium and coarser sand, and Solo soils formed in alluvial deposited volcanic ash.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: The Factoryville soils are on deltas, kame terraces, beach ridges, and lake plains. They formed in sandy glacio-lacustrine sediments or glacial outwash, derived from anorthositic gneiss and limestone. Slope gradients range from 2 to 60 percent. Mean annual temperature is 45 to 47 degrees F. Mean annual precipitation is 26 to 36 inches. The frost-free period is 130 to 150 days. The elevation ranges from 95 to 500 feet above sea level.
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: The well drained Colonie, Dunkirk, Hartland, Howard, and Windsor soils are generally associated with Factoryville soils on deltas, kame terraces, and lake plains. The well drained Pittsfield, Charlton, Chatfield, and Hollis soils are generally associated with Factoryville soils on adjacent upland till landscapes. The poorly drained Gougeville, somewhat poorly drained Stafford, and the moderately well drained Deerfield soils are loosely associated in a drainage sequence with Factoryville soils.
DRAINAGE AND SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY: Well drained. The potential for surface runoff is negligible to medium. Saturated hydraulic conductivity is high to very high in the mineral soil.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most areas of this soil are in woodland. Other areas are in cropland, orchards, hayland, pasture, and residential development. Woodlands are mixed deciduous and conifers, with N. Red Oak, Red Maple, American Beech, Yellow Birch, White Pine, and E. Hemlock. Agriculture includes apples, corn silage, and grass hay.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: The Champlain Valley of New York. MLRA 142. The series is of small extent.
MLRA SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (MO) RESPONSIBLE: Amherst, Massachusetts.
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Essex County, New York, 2007.
REMARKS: Diagnostic horizons and features recognized in this pedon are:
a. Ochric epipedon - the zone from 0 to 11 inches (Ap horizon).
b. Particle-size class - averages sandy in the control section from 10 to 40 inches.
c. Non-cambic pedogenic horizon - the zone from 11 to 33 inches (Bw horizons).