IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Basehor
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 04KS103014
  • User Pedon ID: 04KS103014
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 04KS103014
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40202
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • 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: 39.0473709
  • Std. Longitude: -95.0106964
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11 S
  • Range: 22 E
  • Section: 31
  • PLSS Details: 1300 feet north and 2600 feet west of the southeast corner
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS103—Leavenworth
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS103—Leavenworth County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39095-A1—Tonganoxie, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, siliceous, superactive, mesic Lithic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: within range of map unit
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Basehor
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, siliceous, superactive, mesic Lithic Dystrudepts
  • PSC - 0 to 38 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/7/2004
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loamy residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent sandstone, unspecified at 38cm
  • Geology: Tonganoxie Sandstone member of the Stranger formation in the Douglas group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/7/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 42
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, paralithic

    very strongly coherent

    38 -

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    cambic horizon

    14—38

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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

    8

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    A—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); fine sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2993
    Bw1—14 to 25 centimeters (5.5 to 9.8 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/3) sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2994
    Bw2—25 to 38 centimeters (9.8 to 15.0 inches); strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) sandy loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS2995
    Cr—38 to 48 centimeters (15.0 to 18.9 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4); fragments.