IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hobbs
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 01KS201003
  • User Pedon ID: 01KS201003
  • User Site Association ID: 01KS201 - Wilkens Wetland Determination 1Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 01KS201-Ho1
  • Transect Stop Number - 3
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 01KS201003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40165
  • Print Date: 11/26/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 39.7243576
  • Std. Longitude: -97.2748184
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4S
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: NW 1/4 of the NW1/4
  • Location Description: About 3 miles north and 10 miles west of Linn, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: Ho—HOBBS SILT LOAM, OCCASIONALLY FLOODED
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS201—Washington
  • MLRA: 74—Central Kansas Sandstone Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS201—Washington County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39097-F3—Brantford, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: W. Wehmueller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Cumulic Haplustolls
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hobbs
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, mesic Cumulic Haplustolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/5/2001
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty alluvium
  • Landscape: meander belt
  • Landform: flood plain
  • Runoff: low
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: occasional flooding for brief periods
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Holocene Alluvium formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/5/2001 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 44
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - other tree cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    0—80

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    Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    0.5

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    A1—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior, moist; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2037; observed in shovel slice
    A2—20 to 40 centimeters (7.9 to 15.7 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior, moist; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2038; observed in auger, bucket
    A3—40 to 60 centimeters (15.7 to 23.6 inches);, black (10YR 2/1) exterior, moist; silt loam; 26 percent clay; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2039; observed in auger, bucket
    A4—60 to 80 centimeters (23.6 to 31.5 inches);, very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior, moist; silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2040; observed in auger, bucket
    C1—80 to 100 centimeters (31.5 to 39.4 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; 34 percent clay; massive; firm; 5 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2041; observed in auger, bucket
    C2—100 to 120 centimeters (39.4 to 47.2 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; 36 percent clay; massive; firm; 10 percent fine and medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS2042; observed in auger, bucket
    C3—120 to 150 centimeters (47.2 to 59.1 inches);, very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior, moist; silty clay loam; 38 percent clay; massive; firm; 10 percent fine and medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent.; observed in auger, bucket