LOCATION PAINESVILLE OH PA
Established Series
Rev. STP-JRS-AWD
05/2025
PAINESVILLE SERIES
The Painesville series consists of very deep, somewhat poorly drained soils formed in glaciolacustrine sediments and in the underlying till on Wisconsinan age lake plains. Saturated hydraulic conductivity is moderately high to high in the glaciolacustrine material and moderately low or moderately high in the underlying till. Slope ranges from 0 through 3 percent. The mean annual precipitation is about 1025 millimeters, and the mean annual air temperature is about 10 degrees C.
TAXONOMIC CLASS: Coarse-loamy, mixed, active, nonacid, mesic Aeric Epiaquepts
TYPICAL PEDON: Painesville fine sandy loam, on a convex, 1 percent slope in mixed hardwoods at an elevation of about 198 meters above msl. (Colors are for moist soil unless otherwise noted.)
Ap -- 0 to 23 centimeters; dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) fine sandy loam, gray (10YR 6/1) dry; moderate fine and medium granular structure; friable; many very fine to medium and common coarse roots throughout; very strongly acid; abrupt smooth boundary. (15 to 25 centimeters thick.)
Bg -- 23 to 38 centimeters; light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine sandy loam; weak fine and medium subangular blocky structure; friable; many very fine to medium and common coarse roots throughout; common prominent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) organic coats in root channels; common medium and coarse prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) and common fine and medium distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4) masses of iron accumulation in the matrix; very strongly acid; clear wavy boundary. (10 to 20 centimeters thick.)
Bw1 -- 38 to 56 centimeters; yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) loamy fine sand; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; common very fine to medium roots throughout; few prominent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) organic coats in root channels; many medium and coarse distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) areas of iron depletion in the matrix; common fine and medium faint brown (7.5YR 4/4) and common medium and coarse distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of iron accumulation in the matrix; about 2 percent rock fragments; strongly acid; clear wavy boundary.
Bw2 -- 56 to 76 centimeters; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) channery fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; few very fine and fine roots throughout; many medium and coarse prominent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) areas of iron depletion in the matrix; common medium faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of iron accumulation in the matrix; about 15 percent rock fragments; strongly acid; clear irregular boundary. (Combined thickness of the Bw horizons is 38 to 76 centimeters.)
2Bw3 -- 76 to 109 centimeters; yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; weak very coarse prismatic structure; firm; few very fine roots throughout; many distinct gray (N 6/0) iron-depleted coatings on faces of peds; many medium and coarse prominent gray (10YR 6/1) areas of iron depletion in the matrix; common fine and medium distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of iron accumulation in the matrix; common fine and medium black (N 2/0) masses of iron-manganese oxide accumulation in the matrix; about 12 percent rock fragments; slightly acid; clear wavy boundary.
2Bw4 -- 109 to 129 centimeters; dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) silt loam; weak very coarse prismatic structure; firm; common prominent gray (N 6/0) iron-depleted coatings on vertical faces of peds; many medium and coarse prominent gray (10YR 6/1) areas of iron depletion in the matrix; common fine and medium faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of iron accumulation in the matrix; common fine and medium black (N 2/0) masses of iron-manganese oxide accumulation in the matrix; about 12 percent rock fragments; slightly acid; clear wavy boundary. (Combined thickness of the 2B horizons is 20 to 61 centimeters.)
2C1 -- 129 to 165 centimeters; pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt loam; massive; firm; few prominent gray (N 6/0) iron-depleted coatings on vertical partings; many medium and coarse distinct gray (10YR 6/1) areas of iron depletion in the matrix; common fine and medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) masses of iron accumulation in the matrix; common fine and medium black (N 2/0) masses of iron-manganese oxide accumulation in the matrix; about 12 percent rock fragments; neutral; clear wavy boundary.
2C2 --165 to 203 centimeters; pale brown (10YR 6/3) silt loam; common fine and medium distinct gray (10YR 6/1), faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), and prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6) mottles; massive; firm; common fine and medium prominent black (N 2/0) masses of iron-manganese oxide accumulation in the matrix; about 5 percent rock fragments; strongly effervescent; slightly alkaline.
TYPE LOCATION: Painesville fine sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes, about 2 miles northeast of Geneva, in Ashtabula County, Ohio, Geneva Township, 1,950 feet north of the intersection of U.S. Route 20 and Meyers Road (County Road 9), then 525 feet east. T. 12 N., R. 5 W. USGS Geneva, OH topographic quadrangle; Latitude 41 degrees, 49 minutes, 12 seconds N. and Longitude 80 degrees, 54 minutes, 56 seconds W., NAD 1927.
RANGE IN CHARACTERISTICS: Solum thickness ranges from 84 through 152 centimeters and extends into the underlying till. The thickness of the overlying glaciolacustrine material ranges from 71 through 122 centimeters. Depth to carbonates ranges from 84 through 190 centimeters.
The Ap horizon has hue of 10YR or 2.5YR, value of 3 or 4, and chroma of 1 through 3. Texture is fine sandy loam. Structure is weak or moderate, fine through coarse, granular. Rock fragments range from 0 through 5 percent. Reaction is very strongly acid to moderately acid. Areas that have been limed may be slightly acid or neutral.
The Bg horizon has hue of 10YR, 2.5Y or neutral, value of 5 or 6, and chroma of 0 through 2. Texture is loam, sandy loam, fine sandy loam, or loamy fine sand. Structure is weak or moderate, fine through coarse, subangular blocky, or single grain. Rock fragments range from 0 through 5 percent. Reaction is very strongly acid through moderately acid.
The Bw horizon has hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 4 through 6, and chroma of 3 through 6. Texture is loam, sandy loam, fine sandy loam, loamy fine sand, or their gravelly analogues. Some pedons have thin horizons of sandy clay loam, loamy sand, fine sand, or silt loam. Structure is weak or moderate, fine through coarse, subangular blocky, or single grain. Rock fragments range from 0 through 20 percent. Reaction is very strongly acid through slightly acid.
The 2Bw horizon has hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 4 through 6, and chroma of 3 through 6. Texture is silt loam, silty clay loam, or their gravelly analogues. Some pedons have thin, discontinuous strata of fine sandy loam, sandy loam, or loam. Structure is weak or moderate, fine through coarse, subangular blocky, or weak or moderate, coarse or very coarse, prismatic; these structures part to weak thin platy in some pedons. Rock fragments range from 2 through 20 percent. Reaction is moderately acid through slightly alkaline.
Some pedons have a 2BC horizon with hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, value of 4 through 6, and chroma of 3 or 4. Texture is silt loam, silty clay loam, or their gravelly analogues. Some pedons have thin, discontinuous strata of fine sandy loam, sandy loam, or loam. Structure is weak, medium through very coarse, subangular blocky, or weak, coarse or very coarse, prismatic; these structures part to weak thin platy in some pedons. Rock fragments range from 2 through 20 percent. Reaction is moderately acid through slightly alkaline.
The 2C horizon has hue of 10YR or 2.5Y, or is gleyed, value of 4 through 6, and chroma of 1 through 4. Texture is silt loam, silty clay loam, or their gravelly analogues. Rock fragments range from 2 through 20 percent. Reaction is slightly acid through moderately alkaline.
COMPETING SERIES: These are the
Punsit,
Sun, and
Wilbraham series. These soils all have a densic contact (Cd horizon) within a depth of 150 centimeters.
GEOGRAPHIC SETTING: The Painesville soils are on broad convex flats or slight rises on lake plains. The soils formed in loamy and sandy glaciolacustrine material and in the underlying loamy Wisconsinan age till. Slope ranges from 0 through 3 percent. Elevations are 175 through 260 meters above msl. Mean annual precipitation ranges from 950 through 1100 millimeters, and mean annual air temperature ranges from 9.5 through 10.5 degrees C. The frost free period is 180 through 210 days.
GEOGRAPHICALLY ASSOCIATED SOILS: These are the
Conneaut,
Harbor,
Harborcreek,
Kingsville,
Red Hook,
Stafford and
Tyner soils. Conneaut soils have 20 to 35 percent clay in the subsoil and are on similar landscape positions. Harbor soils are moderately well drained and are on higher landscape positions. Kingsville soils are very poorly drained and are on lower landscape positions. Harborcreek and Tyner soils are excessively drained and are on adjacent higher beach ridge positions. Red Hook soils formed in outwash and are on nearby outwash plains. Stafford soils formed in glaciofluvial sands and are on nearby landscapes.
DRAINAGE AND SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY: Somewhat poorly drained. The potential for surface runoff is high to very high. Saturated hydraulic conductivity is moderately high to high in the glaciolacustrine material and moderately low or moderately high in the underlying till. Depth to the top of an intermittent perched seasonal high water table is 15 to 30 centimeters from November to May in normal years.
USE AND VEGETATION: Most areas of this soil are woodland or abandoned cropland reverting to woodland. Some areas are used for nursery crops or pasture and hayland. The use of this soil for urban development is increasing. Native vegetation is hardwood forest.
DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Northeast Ohio and Northwest Pennsylvania. MLRA's 139 and 101. The series is moderately extensive; about 15,000 acres.
SOIL SURVEY REGIONAL OFFICE (SSRO) RESPONSIBLE: Morgantown, West Virginia
SERIES ESTABLISHED: Lake County, Ohio, 1925.
REMARKS: The particle size family changed from fine-loamy to coarse loamy in 1999. This was due to analysis of all laboratory data on the particle-size control sections of Painesville pedons. Competing series have changed as similar soils were reclassified.
Diagnostic horizons and features recognized in this pedon are:
Ochric epipedon - from the surface to a depth of 9 inches (Ap horizon).
Aquic conditions - from a depth of 23 to 203 centimeters.
Cambic horizon - from a depth of 23 to 129 centimeters (Bg, Bw1, Bw2, 2Bw1 and 2Bw2 horizons).
National Cooperative Soil Survey
U.S.A.