IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Watseka
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1976IL075004
  • User Pedon ID: 1976IL075004
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 76IL075004
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20817
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • 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: 40.9942803
  • Std. Longitude: -87.5796591
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 29N
  • Range: 11W
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: 175 feet east and 220 feet south of northwest corner
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL075—Iroquois
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL075—Iroquois County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40087-H5—Donovan, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: K, S, JBF
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, mesic Aquic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 4
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Watseka
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/10/2009
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - aquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Watseka
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1976
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: alluvium
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1976 (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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    A1—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; fine sand; weak very fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL24320
    A12—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed and very dark gray (10YR 3/1) fine sand; 10 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) medium faint mottles; very friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL24321
    B1—36 to 46 centimeters (14.2 to 18.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine sand; 10 percent very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) medium faint mottles; weak very fine granular structure; very friable; 50 percent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films between sand grains; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL24322
    B2—46 to 94 centimeters (18.1 to 37.0 inches); brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) fine sand; 10 percent gray (7.5YR 5/1) fine distinct and 10 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2) medium faint mottles; single grain; loose; fragments; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL24323
    C—94 to 152 centimeters (37.0 to 59.8 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) and brown (10YR 5/3) and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine sand; single grain; loose; fragments. Lab sample # IL24324