IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alford
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1928IL077001
  • User Pedon ID: 1928IL077001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 28IL077001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20360
  • 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: 37.7428773
  • Std. Longitude: -89.4291588
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 9S
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 15
  • Location Description: 440 FT NE of turn in rd, on E side of gravel road
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL077—Jackson
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL077—Jackson County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: JBF
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Ultic Hapludalfs
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Alford
  • PSC - 58 to 108 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/22/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Alford
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1928
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1928 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Yield Study ID -
    • 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
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    A1—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) silt; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 6.0 fine pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL13029
    A2—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) silt; weak fine platy structure; friable; 6.0 fine pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL13030
    A2—28 to 36 centimeters (11.0 to 14.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) silt; weak fine platy structure; friable; 6.0 fine pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL13031
    B1—36 to 58 centimeters (14.2 to 22.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky, and moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 6.0 fine pores; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL13032
    B21—58 to 79 centimeters (22.8 to 31.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam, silty clay loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 6.0 fine pores; 75 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL13033
    B22—79 to 140 centimeters (31.1 to 55.1 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; strong medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 25 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and 75 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine iron-manganese concretions between peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL13034
    B3—140 to 190 centimeters (55.1 to 74.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky, and moderate medium angular blocky, and weak medium angular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky, and moderate coarse angular blocky, and moderate coarse subangular blocky, and weak coarse angular blocky, and weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; 3.0 fine pores; 25 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silt coats on all faces of peds and 50 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL13035
    C—190 to 216 centimeters (74.8 to 85.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) and brown (7.5YR 4/4) silt loam; massive; 3.0 fine pores; fragments; gradual smooth boundary.