IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bedford
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1977IN117010
  • User Pedon ID: 1977IN117010
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - Purdue
  • Lab Pedon # - OR7710
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22894
  • Print Date: 2/17/2025

    • 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: 38.6551028
  • Std. Longitude: -86.3633944
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 3N
  • Range: 1E
  • Section: 36
  • PLSS Details: 500 feet east and 1620 feet south of the northwest CORNER
  • State: Indiana
  • County: IN117—Orange

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Wingard and Hudson
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mesic Typic Fragiudults
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon #: 10
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bedford
  • Classificaton Date - 3/27/2009
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bedford
  • Classificaton Date - 5/26/1977
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Landform: hill
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Geology: Wisconsin formation.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 5/26/1977 (actual site observation date)
  • Air Photo ID:
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • 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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    AP—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) silt loam; moderate medium granular structure; friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.2; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # OR77101
    B21T—20 to 46 centimeters (7.9 to 18.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 35 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # OR77102
    B22T—46 to 61 centimeters (18.1 to 24.0 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky parts to weak medium prismatic structure; firm; 35 percent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 1 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron and 21 percent distinct light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.6; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # OR77103
    BX—61 to 130 centimeters (24.0 to 51.2 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) silt loam; moderate very coarse prismatic structure; firm; 70 percent grayish brown (10YR 5/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 70 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, silt coats on faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7; diffuse irregular boundary. Lab sample # OR77104
    B31—130 to 157 centimeters (51.2 to 61.8 inches); red (2.5YR 5/6) silty clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 70 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, clay films on faces of peds and 70 percent dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist, clay films on faces of peds; 21 percent distinct yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9; diffuse wavy boundary. Lab sample # OR77105
    B32—157 to 213 centimeters (61.8 to 83.9 inches); dark red (2.5YR 3/6) clay; moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 1 percent light brownish gray (10YR 6/2), moist, iron depletions and 21 percent prominent strong brown (7.5YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.9. Lab sample # OR77106