IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Fayette
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1977IL095043
  • User Pedon ID: 1977IL095043
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 77IL095043
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 20929
  • Print Date: 4/25/2025

    • LOCATION

  • Township: 10N
  • Range: 2E
  • Section: 33
  • Location Description: Orange Township
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL095—Knox
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL095—Knox County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Hapludalfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 43
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Fayette
  • PSC - 30 to 80 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/4/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Fayette
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1977
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peoria loess
  • Landscape: upland
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Slope Shape Across: convex
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1977 (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 -
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—30

    30—109

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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
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    Ap—0 to 8 centimeters (0.0 to 3.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; weak very fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.
    E—8 to 30 centimeters (3.1 to 11.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), dry; silt loam; moderate coarse platy structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary.
    Bw1—30 to 48 centimeters (11.8 to 18.9 inches); brown (7.5YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate very fine angular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25009
    Bw2—48 to 76 centimeters (18.9 to 29.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; strong fine angular blocky structure; firm; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25010
    Bw3—76 to 109 centimeters (29.9 to 42.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; 1 percent brownish yellow (10YR 6/8) fine faint mottles; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL25011
    BC—109 to 150 centimeters (42.9 to 59.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; friable; prominent red (2.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 1 percent fine faint yellowish brown (10YR 5/8) masses of oxidized iron and 1 percent fine faint light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) masses of oxidized iron; fragments; gradual smooth boundary.
    C—150 to 178 centimeters (59.1 to 70.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silt loam; 10 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) fine faint mottles; structureless massive; friable; prominent red (2.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and prominent black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese coatings in matrix and 10 percent fine faint light brownish gray (10YR 6/2) masses of oxidized iron; fragments.