IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Baileyville
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 04KS131100
  • User Pedon ID: 04KS131100
  • User Site Association ID: 04KS SCAN sites
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 12/5/2025

    • 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: 39.7004722
  • Std. Longitude: -96.1629444
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 4S
  • Range: 11E
  • Section: 14
  • PLSS Details: 255 feet east and 1385 feet north of the southwest corner
  • Location Description: Approximately 1.5 miles south and 1.5 mile west of Centralia, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: Pa—PAWNEE CLAY LOAM, 1 TO 4 PERCENT SLOPES7500—Pawnee clay loam, 1 to 4 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS131—Nemaha
  • MLRA: 106—Nebraska and Kansas Loess-Drift Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS131—Nemaha County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 39096-F2—Centralia, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.C. Remley, J. Warner, J. Anderson, W. Wehmueller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Oxyaquic Vertic 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 - Baileyville
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Oxyaquic Vertic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 28 to 78 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 6/24/2004
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 28 cm of Depth to redoximorphic concentrations and 71 cm of Depth to pedisediment and 123 cm of Depth to till


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: clayey loess over loamy pedisediment over clayey till
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Runoff: high
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 6/24/2004 (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

    argillic horizon

    0—28

    28—200

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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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    397

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    270

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    Ap—0 to 17 centimeters (0.0 to 6.7 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine roots throughout; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    BA—17 to 28 centimeters (6.7 to 11.0 inches); 80 percent very dark brown (10YR 2/2) exterior and 20 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) exterior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 1 percent medium distinct spherical moderately coherent cemented manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—28 to 71 centimeters (11.0 to 28.0 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior silty clay loam; weak medium prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots throughout; 40 percent distinct very dark gray (10YR 3/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium distinct spherical moderately coherent cemented manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix and 5 percent fine distinct irregular moderately coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries infused into matrix along faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear wavy boundary.; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 262394; continuous - phpvsfiid 262394
    Bt2—71 to 93 centimeters (28.0 to 36.6 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior silty clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 30 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium distinct spherical moderately coherent cemented manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix and 5 percent fine distinct irregular moderately coherent cemented strong brown (7.5YR 4/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries infused into matrix along faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; gradual smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 262395; continuous - phpvsfiid 262395
    2Bt3—93 to 123 centimeters (36.6 to 48.4 inches); dark brown (10YR 3/3) exterior silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine and medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 2.0 fine roots throughout; 30 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent medium distinct spherical moderately coherent cemented manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix and 5 percent fine prominent irregular moderately coherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with clear boundaries infused into matrix along faces of peds; fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 262396; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 262396
    3Bt4—123 to 159 centimeters (48.4 to 62.6 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior silty clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 15 percent distinct very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine prominent irregular noncoherent cemented yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, and strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron infused into matrix along faces of peds and 15 percent fine prominent spherical noncoherent cemented manganese masses in matrix; 3 percent fine spherical strongly coherent cemented carbonate nodules with clear boundaries in matrix; 6 percent by volume rounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-5-20 millimeter quartzite fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n; clear smooth boundary.; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 262397; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 262397
    3Bt5—159 to 200 centimeters (62.6 to 78.7 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) exterior clay; moderate coarse prismatic parts to moderate medium subangular blocky structure; very firm; 1.0 fine roots throughout; 25 percent distinct dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 15 percent fine prominent spherical noncoherent cemented manganese masses in matrix and 20 percent fine and medium prominent irregular noncoherent cemented red (2.5YR 5/6), moist, and yellowish red (5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron with diffuse boundaries infused into matrix along faces of peds; 3 percent fine spherical strongly coherent cemented carbonate nodules with clear boundaries in matrix; 8 percent by volume subrounded very strongly coherent cemented 2-5-10 millimeter quartzite fragments; noneffervescent, by hcl, 1n.; observed in pit, small. continuous - phpvsfiid 262399; continuous - phpvsfiid 262399