IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wamego
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 04KS103504
  • User Pedon ID: 04KS103504
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 04KS103504
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40222
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 39.0846519
  • Std. Longitude: -95.0712967
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11 S
  • Range: 21 E
  • Section: 22
  • PLSS Details: 900 feet south and 1000 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Map Unit: 7659—Vinland-Sibleyville complex, 5 to 12 percent slopesVs—VINLAND-SIBLEYVILLE COMPLEX, 5 TO 12 PERCENT SLOPES
  • 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: T. Robertson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Wamego
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 38 to 88 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 8/11/2004
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey residuum weathered from sandstone and shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Position: lower third
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Bedrock: moderately coherent at 114cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/11/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 41
  • 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 Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—38

    38—114

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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

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    A1—0 to 26 centimeters (0.0 to 10.2 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) interior loam; soft, very friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3094; observed in push tube
    A2—26 to 38 centimeters (10.2 to 15.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior silt loam; slightly hard, friable, slightly sticky, slightly plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3095; observed in push tube
    Bt1—38 to 66 centimeters (15.0 to 26.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) interior silty clay loam; moderately hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 15 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 6 percent medium faint spherical weakly coherent cemented manganese masses infused into matrix adjacent to pores; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3096; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 266238; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 266238
    Bt2—66 to 80 centimeters (26.0 to 31.5 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) interior silty clay loam; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 18 percent distinct clay films on all faces of peds; 8 percent medium faint spherical weakly coherent cemented manganese masses infused into matrix adjacent to pores; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3097; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 266239; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 266239
    Bt3—80 to 114 centimeters (31.5 to 44.9 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) interior silty clay loam; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; 20 percent prominent clay films on all faces of peds; 12 percent medium distinct spherical weakly coherent cemented manganese masses infused into matrix adjacent to pores; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3098; observed in push tube. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 266240; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 266240