IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Dakota
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1970IL125002
  • User Pedon ID: 1970IL125002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 70IL125002
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20708
  • 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: 40.3827136
  • Std. Longitude: -89.7230156
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22N
  • Range: 6W
  • Section: 1
  • Location Description: 75 feet west of midpoint between 2 gate posts in east-west fence, 108 feet west of north-south fence
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL125—Mason
  • MLRA: 108—Illinois and Iowa Deep Loess and Drift
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL125—Mason County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40089-D6—South Pekin, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: GH, GW, BR
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Dakota
  • PSC - 51 to 101 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/10/2009
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Onarga
  • Classificaton Date - 12/1/1970
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium over outwash
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 12/1/1970 (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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

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    156

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    889

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    11.6

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) fine sandy loam; weak fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL22289
    A12—20 to 41 centimeters (7.9 to 16.1 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) fine sandy loam; moderate very fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL22290, IL22291. Horizon split for sampling: IL22290 20 to 30 cm, IL22291 30 to 41 cm.
    B1—41 to 51 centimeters (16.1 to 20.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) sandy loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL22292
    B21t—51 to 71 centimeters (20.1 to 28.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) fine sandy loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; dark brown (10YR 3/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # IL22293, IL22294. Horizon split for sampling: IL22293 51 to 61 cm, IL22294 61 to 71 cm.
    B22t—71 to 91 centimeters (28.0 to 35.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; firm; brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # IL22295, IL22296. Horizon split for sampling: IL22295 71 to 81 cm, IL22296 81 to 91 cm.
    B3—91 to 107 centimeters (35.8 to 42.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) sandy loam; weak coarse subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # IL22297
    IIC—107 to 152 centimeters (42.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) stratified stratified loamy fine sand; single grain, and massive; loose; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8. Lab sample # IL22298, IL22299. Horizon split for sampling: IL22298 107 to 119 cm, IL22299 119 to 152 cm.