IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hord
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1951NE079012
  • User Pedon ID: 1951NE079012
  • Vegetation Plot ID: 1951NE079012
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A2263
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 36960
  • Print Date: 1/31/2025

    • 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: 40.9547234
  • Std. Longitude: -98.5961075
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 11N
  • Range: 11W
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: SE 1/4, NE 1/4
  • Map Unit: Hd—Hord silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes3770—Hord silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE079—Hall
  • MLRA: 71—Central Nebraska Loess Hills
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE079—Hall County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40098-H5—Shelton NE, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Haplustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from PDP 3.x
  • Pedon #: 12
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hord
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Cumulic Haplustolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/10/1951
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Pedon Vegetation and Crop Cover Information:
  • Current Crop - oats
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

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

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 10/10/1951 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • Vegetation Plot Plants
    Plant Symbol Scientific Name National Vernacular Name Plant Type Group Canopy Cover % Vegetation Stata Level

    MELIL

    Melilotus

    sweetclover

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—41

    41—66

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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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    A1p—0 to 15 centimeters (0.0 to 5.9 inches); dark gray (10YR 4/1), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silt loam; granular structure; soft, friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A17766
    A12—15 to 41 centimeters (5.9 to 16.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silt loam; granular structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A17767. fi-lo
    B2—41 to 66 centimeters (16.1 to 26.0 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silt loam; subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A17768. fi-lo
    A1b—66 to 91 centimeters (26.0 to 35.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A17769. fi-lo
    B21b—91 to 117 centimeters (35.8 to 46.1 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silt loam; granular structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A17770. fi-si
    B22b—117 to 142 centimeters (46.1 to 55.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist; silt loam; friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A17771. clayey
    C1bca—142 to 168 centimeters (55.9 to 66.1 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silt loam, silty clay loam; subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments. Lab sample # 40A17772. clayey; thread-like streaks and medium-sized spots and flecks of calcium carbonate and other salts present