Pilepoint soil series

Soil profile: The Pilepoint series consists of moderately deep, moderately well drained soils formed in eolian sand over glacial outwash and dense glaciomarine deposits. Pilepoint soils are on hills of glacial drift plains. Slopes are 2 to 12 percent. (Soil Survey of San Juan County, Washington; by Michael Regan, Natural Resources Conservation Service)

 

TAXONOMIC CLASS: Fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, mesic Xeric Argialbolls

 

Mean annual soil temperature - 50 to 54 degrees F.

Soil moisture control section - dry 75 to 90 days after the summer solstice

Depth to redoximorphic features - 22 to 30 inches

Depth to densic contact - 20 to 40 inches

Reaction - moderately acid to slightly acid

Particle-size control section:

clay content - 18 to 35 percent

rock fragments - 0 to 15 percent gravel

 

USE AND VEGETATION: These soils are used mainly for pasture, forage crop production, and home sites. Potential natural vegetation consists of Douglas-fir, Oregon white oak, pacific madrone, Roemers fescue, snowberry, bracken fern, trailing blackberry, bald hip rose, and oceanspray.

 

DISTRIBUTION AND EXTENT: Northwest Washington; MLRA 2, Northern Part. Series is of small extent.

 

For additional information about the survey area, visit:

www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/washington/WA0...

 

For a detailed soil description, visit:

soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/P/PILEPOINT.html

 

For acreage and geographic distribution, visit:

casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/see/#pilepoint

 

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