IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Sparta
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1984IL183041
  • User Pedon ID: 1984IL183041
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 84IL183041
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 21779
  • Print Date: 11/23/2024

    • 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: 40.3553500
  • Std. Longitude: -87.6777722
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 22N
  • Range: 12W
  • Section: 23
  • PLSS Details: 1700 feet E & 800 feet S of the NW corner
  • Location Description: 75paces S of field edge, Ross Township
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL183—Vermilion
  • MLRA: 110—Northern Illinois and Indiana Heavy Till Plain
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL183—Vermilion County, Illinois
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 40087-C6—Henning, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Current Taxonomic Class: Sandy, mixed, mesic Entic Hapludolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 41
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Sparta
  • PSC - 25 to 100 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/4/2010
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Ade
  • Classificaton Date - 7/1/1984
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: outwash
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 7/1/1984 (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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    2.5

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    Ap—0 to 20 centimeters (0.0 to 7.9 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; loamy fine sand; weak very fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL31362
    A—20 to 36 centimeters (7.9 to 14.2 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dry; loamy fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak very fine granular structure; very friable; fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL31363
    Bw1—36 to 56 centimeters (14.2 to 22.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) fine sand; weak fine subangular blocky structure; very friable; 25 percent faint very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2), moist, organic stains on all faces of peds; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL31364
    Bw2—56 to 86 centimeters (22.0 to 33.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine sand; weak medium subangular blocky structure; very friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; gradual wavy boundary. Lab sample # IL31365
    Bt/C1—86 to 178 centimeters (33.9 to 70.1 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) and dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine sand; massive, and weak medium subangular blocky; very friable; 10 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films between sand grains; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # IL31366, IL31367. Horizon split for sampling: IL31366 86 to 130 cm, IL31367 130 to 178 cm.
    C2—178 to 201 centimeters (70.1 to 79.1 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4) fine sand; massive; very friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.3. Lab sample # IL31368