IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hillsdale
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1976IN181002
  • User Pedon ID: 1976IN181002
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - WH7602
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22523
  • User Project ID: 2024GRR011
  • Project Name: EVAL - MLRA 98 - Riddles sandy loam, 0 to 2 percent slopes
  • 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: 40.8938861
  • Std. Longitude: -86.7138528
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 28N
  • Range: 3W
  • Section: 12
  • PLSS Details: 800 feet east and 1625 feet south of the northwest CORNER
  • Location Description: White Township, 800 feet east and 1625 feet south of the northwest CORNER
  • Map Unit: OwA—Owosso fine sandy loam, 1 to 3 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN181—White
  • MLRA: 98—Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana Drift Plains
  • Regional Office: NE—Northeast
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE-GRP—Grand Rapids, Michigan
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IN181—White County, Indiana

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Langlois and Osterholz
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Mesic
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 2
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hillsdale
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hillsdale
  • Classificaton Date - 4/26/1976
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: eolian sands over coarse-loamy till
  • Landform: rise on till plain
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: base slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Pattern: dendritic
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Ksat Class Upper: moderately high
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: yes

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    F098XB030IN Kankakee Sand Dunes Apr 22 2024 Devon Brodie

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 4/26/1976 (actual site observation date)
  • Data Collector: Langlois and Osterholz
  • 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
    • 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

    1

    —

    —

    209.1

    —

    315

    952

    —

    168

    9.9

    21.8

    -3.2

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    129670

    Winamac 2SSE

    NWS COOP
    AP—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) fine sand; weak medium granular structure; very friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # WH76021
    B21—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine sand; weak medium granular structure; very friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WH76022
    B22T—43 to 58 centimeters (16.9 to 22.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # WH76023
    B23T—58 to 102 centimeters (22.8 to 40.2 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) loam; platy parts to thin structure; firm; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.9; clear broken boundary. Lab sample # WH76024
    B3—102 to 112 centimeters (40.2 to 44.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.5; clear irregular boundary. Lab sample # WH76025
    C—112 to 152 centimeters (44.1 to 59.8 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine sandy loam; massive; fragments; moderately alkaline, pH 8.1. Lab sample # WH76026