IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Peotone
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1980IL053001
  • User Pedon ID: 1980IL053001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - yes
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 80IL053001
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 21172
  • Print Date: 3/2/2025

    • 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: 40.4141806
  • Std. Longitude: -88.1908972
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 23N
  • Range: 9E
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 105 feet south and 945 feet east of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: 4mi SW of Paxton
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL053—Ford
  • MLRA: 110—Northern Illinois and Indiana Heavy Till Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL053—Ford County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40088-D2—Perdueville, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Teater and Walker
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, smectitic, mesic Cumulic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Peotone
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 7/6/2015
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Peotone
  • Taxonomic Class - Fine, montmorillonitic, mesic Cumulic Haplaquolls
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/2/1980
  • Classifier - Teater and Walker
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: colluvium
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: depression
  • Hill Slope Profile: toeslope
  • Runoff: negligible
  • Drainage Class: very poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/1/1980 (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

    mollic epipedon

    cambic horizon

    0—89

    89—157

    —89—

    —68—
    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

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    240

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    90

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    Ap—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silty clay loam; weak very fine granular structure; friable; 6.0 roots between peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26910
    A—23 to 43 centimeters (9.1 to 16.9 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine granular structure; friable; 6.0 roots between peds; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.8; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26911
    Bg1—43 to 64 centimeters (16.9 to 25.2 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark gray (10YR 4/1), dry; silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 6.0 roots between peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26912
    Bg2—64 to 89 centimeters (25.2 to 35.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1) silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 6.0 roots between peds; 2 percent by volume 2-4-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.6; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26913
    Btg—89 to 127 centimeters (35.0 to 50.0 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) silty clay loam; strong fine prismatic parts to moderate medium angular blocky structure; firm; 3.0 fine roots between peds; 30 percent faint dark gray (5Y 4/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 2 percent fine iron-manganese masses throughout and 10 percent fine prominent light olive brown (2.5Y 5/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 2 percent by volume 2-4-5 millimeter unspecified fragments; neutral, pH 6.9; gradual smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26914. continuous - phpvsfiid 1422933; continuous - phpvsfiid 1422933
    BCtg—127 to 157 centimeters (50.0 to 61.8 inches); dark gray (5Y 4/1) silty clay loam; moderate medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.6 roots between peds; 50 percent faint gray (5Y 5/1), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/6), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL26915. continuous - phpvsfiid 1422932; continuous - phpvsfiid 1422932
    Cg—157 to 178 centimeters (61.8 to 70.1 inches); light olive gray (5Y 6/2) silt loam; structureless massive; friable; 0.6 roots between peds; 25 percent medium prominent yellowish brown (10YR 5/8), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; fragments; slight effervescence, by hcl, unspecified; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4. Lab sample # IL26916