IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Wagstaff
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1986KS001007
  • User Pedon ID: 1986KS001007
  • User Site Association ID: MLRA 112 Wagstaff Catoosa project
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 86P0874
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 59168
  • Print Date: 2/16/2025

    • 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: 37.7936111
  • Std. Longitude: -95.3483333
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 26S
  • Range: 19E
  • Section: 8
  • PLSS Details: 1675 feet west and 935 feet north of SE corner
  • Location Description: About 1.5 miles south and 4.5 miles east of Humboldt, Kansas.
  • Map Unit: 8643—Catoosa silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • State: Kansas
  • County: KS001—Allen
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: KS001—Allen County, Kansas
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 37095-G3—Iola SE, Kansas

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: E. Fleming, D. Owens, D. Swanson, B. Roth
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, mixed, active, thermic Oxyaquic Vertic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: OSD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 7
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Wagstaff (flagged as OSD)
  • Classificaton Date - 11/4/2014
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Subclass - oxyaquic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Catoosa
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1986
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess and/or residuum weathered from limestone
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: shoulder
  • Slope Shape Down: linear
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: very strongly coherent at 93cm
  • Geology: Iola Limestone formation of the Kansas City group.
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1986 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    episaturation

    slickensides

    lithic contact

    0—54

    39—93

    54—93

    54—93

    93—110

    —54—

    —54—

    —39—

    —39—

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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
    % m degrees mm mm C mm

    1

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    312

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    225

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    A—0 to 23 centimeters (0.0 to 9.1 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) interior, dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2) interior, dry; silty clay loam; moderate medium granular structure; hard, friable; 5.5 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P05228
    BA—23 to 39 centimeters (9.1 to 15.4 inches); dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) interior silty clay; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 2.5 fine roots; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P05229
    Bt1—39 to 54 centimeters (15.4 to 21.3 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/3) interior silty clay; strong fine subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 2.5 fine roots; 2 percent fine distinct spherical black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P05230
    Btss1—54 to 71 centimeters (21.3 to 28.0 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior silty clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 2.5 fine roots; 5 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 5 percent fine distinct spherical black (10YR 2/1), moist, manganese masses in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # 86P05231
    Btss2—71 to 93 centimeters (28.0 to 36.6 inches); dark reddish brown (5YR 3/4) interior clay; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; hard, firm; 0.5 fine roots; 10 percent slickensides (pedogenic); 30 percent fine distinct irregular dark red (2.5YR 3/6), moist, iron-manganese masses with clear boundaries in matrix; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; abrupt wavy boundary. Lab sample # 86P05232
    R—93 to 110 centimeters (36.6 to 43.3 inches); bedrock; fragments.