IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chillicothe
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 05KS103171
  • User Pedon ID: 05KS103171
  • User Site Association ID: Kansas State University Laboratory Pedons
  • Transect:
  • User Transect ID - 10605KS103-7305-015
  • Transect Stop Number - 1
  • Transect Interval - 45.7
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - KSU
  • Lab Pedon # - 05KS103171
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 40240
  • Print Date: 4/28/2025

    • 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: 39.3027077
  • Std. Longitude: -95.1355820
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9 S
  • Range: 21 E
  • Section: 1
  • PLSS Details: 75 feet south and 1500 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: Earl Domann's
  • 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: 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 - Chillicothe
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, smectitic, mesic Oxyaquic Vertic Argiudolls
  • PSC - 12 to 62 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 5/26/2005
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture SUBClass - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey loess over silty and clayey residuum weathered from clayey shale
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: hillside
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Position: upper third
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Geology: Clay Creek Limestone member of the Kanwaka Shale formation in the Shawnee group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/26/2005 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID: 12
  • 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—40

    12—180

    —40—

    —168—
    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

    12

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    0

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    A—0 to 12 centimeters (0.0 to 4.7 inches); silty clay loam; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3318
    Bt1—12 to 29 centimeters (4.7 to 11.4 inches); silty clay loam; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3319
    Bt2—29 to 46 centimeters (11.4 to 18.1 inches); silty clay loam; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3320
    Bt3—46 to 74 centimeters (18.1 to 29.1 inches); silty clay loam; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3321
    Bt4—74 to 115 centimeters (29.1 to 45.3 inches); silty clay loam; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3322
    Bt5—115 to 154 centimeters (45.3 to 60.6 inches); silty clay loam; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3323
    Bt6—154 to 170 centimeters (60.6 to 66.9 inches); silty clay loam; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3324
    Bt7—170 to 180 centimeters (66.9 to 70.9 inches); silty clay loam; hard, firm, moderately sticky, moderately plastic; fragments. Lab sample # KSUSS3325