IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Judson
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 03NE109005
  • User Pedon ID: 03NE109005
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 03N0991
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 28225
  • Print Date: 5/14/2025

    • 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: 40.6848907
  • Std. Longitude: -96.8510818
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 8 N
  • Range: 5 E
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: SW 1/4
  • Location Description: Spring Creek. About 150 feet east of stream about 250 feet from the dam. Colluvial area. Very thick stand of big bluestem. Many fine and medium roots throughout the profile. Roots were coarser in the Bw horizons.
  • Map Unit: 7231—Judson silt loam, 2 to 6 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE109—Lancaster
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE109—Lancaster County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40096-F7—Denton, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Pedon #: 5
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Judson
  • Classificaton Date - 6/19/2013
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Judson
  • Classificaton Date - 9/25/2003
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty colluvium
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Hill Slope Profile: footslope
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 9/25/2003 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - rangeland, grassland
  • 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—46

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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

    2

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    A1—0 to 5 centimeters (0.0 to 2.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silt loam; 16 percent sand; 27 percent clay; strong fine granular structure; soft, very friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 03N05038
    A2—5 to 10 centimeters (2.0 to 3.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; 14 percent sand; 29 percent clay; strong fine granular structure; soft, very friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 03N05039
    A3—10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; 15 percent sand; 30 percent clay; strong fine granular structure; soft, very friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 03N05040
    A4—20 to 30 centimeters (7.9 to 11.8 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; 16 percent sand; 32 percent clay; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 03N05041
    Bw1—30 to 46 centimeters (11.8 to 18.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silty clay; 15 percent sand; 43 percent clay; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 03N05042
    Bw2—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay loam; 15 percent sand; 38 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 03N05043
    B—61 to 100 centimeters (24.0 to 39.4 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silty clay; 14 percent sand; 41 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; gradual boundary. Lab sample # 03N05044
    C—100 to 114 centimeters (39.4 to 44.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) clay loam; 23 percent sand; 35 percent clay; weak coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments. Lab sample # 03N05045