IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Smithland
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 04KS103020
  • User Pedon ID: 04KS103020
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 04KS103020
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40208
  • Print Date: 4/27/2025

    • 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: 39.1318436
  • Std. Longitude: -95.0276947
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 10 S
  • Range: 21 E
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 1100 feet north and 1100 feet east of the southwest corner
  • Map Unit: 091RA—READING SILT LOAM, 0 TO 2 PERCENT SLOPES, RARELY FLOODED
  • 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-B1—Jarbalo, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: B. Evans
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • 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 - Smithland
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Aquic Cumulic Hapludolls
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 4/14/2004
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-silty alluvium
  • Landscape: valley
  • Landform: terrace
  • Geomorphic Component Terraces: tread
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Flooding: rare flooding for brief periods
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/14/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 27
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop 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

    cambic horizon

    0—36

    36—119

    —36—

    —83—
    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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    90

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    Ap—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak fine granular structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3020
    A—12 to 36 centimeters (4.7 to 14.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3021
    Bw1—36 to 61 centimeters (14.2 to 24.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; 10 percent fine distinct very dark brown (7.5YR 2.5/3), moist, and dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3022
    Bw2—61 to 84 centimeters (24.0 to 33.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 20 percent fine distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3023
    Bw3—84 to 119 centimeters (33.1 to 46.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 1 percent fine prominent spherical moderately coherent cemented black (10YR 2/1), moist, iron-manganese concretions in matrix and 20 percent fine distinct dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3024
    Bg4—119 to 164 centimeters (46.9 to 64.6 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1) silty clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 20 percent fine distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # KSUSS3025
    Bg5—164 to 186 centimeters (64.6 to 73.2 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 35 percent fine distinct brown (7.5YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron throughout; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3026