Soil Series Atlas

Honeoye soil series

Fine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Glossic Hapludalfs

050100150cm1 ft2 ft3 ft4 ft5 ft6 ftApTopsoil · plowed0–20 cm · 0–8 inELeached layer20–25 cm · 8–10 inBt/EMixed subsoil and leached layer · claybuild-up25–36 cm · 10–14 inBt1Subsoil · clay build-up36–58 cm · 14–23 inBt2Subsoil · clay build-up58–74 cm · 23–29 inCParent material74–183 cm · 29–72 in050100150cmApTopsoil · plowed0–20 cm · 0–8 inELeached layer20–25 cm · 8–10 inBt/EMixed subsoil andleached layer · claybuild-up25–36 cm · 10–14 inBt1Subsoil · clay build-up36–58 cm · 14–23 inBt2Subsoil · clay build-up58–74 cm · 23–29 inCParent material74–183 cm · 29–72 in
Typical pedon, to scale: 183 cm (72 in), 6 horizons.

Alfisols — moderately leached soils with a clay-enriched subsoil

Nationally Honeoye is a small series: 304,181 acres, 1,099th of 24,791 by area. Every mapped acre is in New York. No other established series shares its family class. It is the state soil of New York.

Depth
Very deep
Drainage
Well drained
Water movement
Moderately high

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Where Honeoye is mapped

304,181 acres in 18 soil survey areas, from current SSURGO data.

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Share of all Honeoye acres

  1. New York100%
  • Rank in the state · share of its mapped soil
  • New York 12th of 574 · 1.18%

In the field

Drainage

Well drained

Drains fastStays wet

Soil depth

Very deep

ShallowDeep

Water movement (Ksat)

Moderately high

SlowFast
Parent material
Glacial till
Landform
Till plains
Major land resource areas
101, 140
Type location
New York

How it is classified

  1. OrderAlfisols
  2. SuborderUdalfs
  3. Great groupHapludalfs
  4. SubgroupGlossic Hapludalfs
  5. FamilyFine-loamy, mixed, semiactive, mesic Glossic Hapludalfsfine-loamy particle-size classmixed mineralogy classsemiactive cation-exchange activity classmesic soil temperature regime

Against other Alfisols

Honeoye makes up 0.11% of all mapped Alfisols — the 191st largest of 4,001 series in the order.

Solum thickness (topsoil + subsoil)

74 cm under a median of 127 cm

Depth described

183 cm over a median of 156 cm

Its relatives

Close relatives, at one scale

  1. Honeoye183 cm · Glossic Hapludalfs
  2. Fayette185 cm · Typic Hapludalfs
  3. Miami200 cm · Oxyaquic Hapludalfs
  4. Miamian200 cm · Oxyaquic Hapludalfs

Horizon by horizon

HorizonLayerDepthThickness
ApTopsoil: plowed0–20 cm0–8 in20 cm
ELeached layer20–25 cm8–10 in5 cm
Bt/EMixed subsoil and leached layer: clay build-up25–36 cm10–14 in11 cm
Bt1Subsoil: clay build-up36–58 cm14–23 in22 cm
Bt2Subsoil: clay build-up58–74 cm23–29 in16 cm
CParent material74–183 cm29–72 in109 cm

Sources: USDA–NRCS Official Series Description (revised 2020-07), Soil Classification database and SSURGO. Ranks computed by Soil Series Atlas. Method · Guides