IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Alford
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1945IL157001
  • User Pedon ID: 1945IL157001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 45IL157001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20437
  • 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: 37.9928452
  • Std. Longitude: -89.9245581
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 6S
  • Range: 7W
  • Section: 19
  • Location Description: 1.85 mi SW of Ill. Rt.3, then 200 FT NW along fence, then 20 FT SE
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL157—Randolph
  • MLRA: 115—Central Mississippi Valley Wooded Slopes
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL157—Randolph 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 - 48 to 98 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 2/22/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Alford
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1945
  • 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: 8/1/1945 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - crop cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - row crop
  • 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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    A1p—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) silt loam; friable; fragments. Lab sample # IL17107
    A2—18 to 38 centimeters (7.1 to 15.0 inches); variegated brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; friable; fragments. Lab sample # IL17108, IL17109. Horizon split for sampling: IL17108 18 to 25 cm, IL17109 25 to 38 cm.
    B1—38 to 48 centimeters (15.0 to 18.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # IL17110
    B21—48 to 66 centimeters (18.9 to 26.0 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # IL17111, IL17112. Horizon split for sampling: IL17111 48 to 56 cm, IL17112 56 to 66 cm.
    B22—66 to 97 centimeters (26.0 to 38.2 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; coarse angular blocky structure; very firm; dark brown (7.5YR 3/4), moist, organoargillans on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # IL17113, IL17116, IL17114, IL17115. Horizon split for sampling: IL17113 66 to 71 cm, IL17114 71 to 76 cm, IL17115 76 to 86 cm, IL17116 86 to 97 cm.
    B3—97 to 152 centimeters (38.2 to 59.8 inches); brown (7.5YR 4/4) silty clay loam; brown (7.5YR 5/4), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments. Lab sample # IL17117, IL17120, IL17118, IL17119. Horizon split for sampling: IL17117 97 to 109 cm, IL17118 109 to 122 cm, IL17119 122 to 137 cm, IL17120 137 to 152 cm.
    C—152 to 229 centimeters (59.8 to 90.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) silt loam; fragments. Lab sample # IL17121, IL17123, IL17122. Horizon split for sampling: IL17121 152 to 178 cm, IL17122 178 to 203 cm, IL17123 203 to 229 cm.