Hackers silt loam - on a 2 percent slope in a meadow at an elevation of about 650 feet above msl. W. Va. Route 47 and 100 yards south of bridge across North Fork of Hughes River. Solum thickness ranges from 30 to 60 inches or more. Depth to bedrock is greater than 6 feet. Rock fragment content of mostly gravel and channers ranges from 0 to 5 percent in the solum, and 0 o 30 percent in the substratum.
Unlimed soils have subhorizons that are strongly acid through slightly acid.
The Ap horizon has hue of 5YR through 10YR, value of 3 or 4, and chroma of 2 through 4. Texture of the fine earth material is silt loam or loam. Uncultivated areas have thin A horizons. Some pedons have an E horizon. The BA horizon has hue of 7.5YR or 5YR, value of 4 and chroma of 4 through 6.