IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Bluford
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1989IL055003
  • User Pedon ID: 1989IL055003
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - IL SCL
  • Lab Pedon # - 89IL055003
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 22173
  • Print Date: 4/23/2025

    • 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: 38.0819750
  • Std. Longitude: -88.7150194
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 5S
  • Range: 4E
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: 2520 feet east and 100 feet south of the northwest corner
  • Location Description: 2520FT E & 100FT S of the NE corner of Sec.24
  • State: Illinois
  • County: IL055—Franklin
  • MLRA: 113—Central Claypan Areas
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: IL055—Franklin County, Illinois

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: DEP BCF
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Aeric Fragic Epiaqualfs
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: map unit inclusion
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Pedon #: 3
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Bluford
  • PSC - 56 to 106 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 10/2/2008
  • Moisture Class - aquic
  • Moisture Subclass - aeric
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Bluford
  • Classificaton Date - 2/1/1989
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 0
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: loess and/or Illinoian till
  • Landscape: till plain
  • Landform: loess hill
  • Drainage Class: somewhat poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 2/1/1989 (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 Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    fragipan

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    112 - 188

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    Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    ochric epipedon

    argillic horizon

    fragipan

    0—56

    56—188

    112—188

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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

    1.5

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    Ap—0 to 18 centimeters (0.0 to 7.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), dry; silt loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 5.0 very fine roots between peds and fine roots between peds; fragments; neutral, pH 6.7, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL34433
    E1—18 to 28 centimeters (7.1 to 11.0 inches); brown (10YR 4/3) and brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine faint mottles; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 5.0 very fine roots between peds and fine roots between peds; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, lamotte-morgan; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL34434
    E2—28 to 56 centimeters (11.0 to 22.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; 25 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine faint mottles; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 0.6 fine roots between peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.7, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL34435
    Bt1—56 to 112 centimeters (22.0 to 44.1 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2) silty clay loam; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium distinct and yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) fine distinct and yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) medium distinct and 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) fine distinct mottles; strong medium prismatic structure; firm; 0.6 fine roots between peds; faint light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, skeletans on all faces of peds and faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL34436. patchy - phpvsfiid 427700; patchy - phpvsfiid 427701; patchy - phpvsfiid 427700; patchy - phpvsfiid 427701
    Btx2—112 to 188 centimeters (44.1 to 74.0 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/6) and brown (10YR 5/3) silt loam; weak coarse prismatic structure; very firm; distinct light gray (10YR 7/2), moist, skeletans on all faces of peds and faint dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 1 percent fine distinct iron-manganese masses in matrix; fragments; very strongly acid, pH 4.8, lamotte-morgan; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # IL34437. patchy - phpvsfiid 427702; patchy - phpvsfiid 427703; patchy - phpvsfiid 427702; patchy - phpvsfiid 427703
    2C—188 to 254 centimeters (74.0 to 100.0 inches); brown (10YR 5/3) silty clay loam; yellowish brown (10YR 5/6) medium distinct and 10 percent yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) medium distinct mottles; structureless massive; very firm; 10 percent medium distinct iron-manganese masses in matrix; 1 percent by volume igneous, unspecified fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2, lamotte-morgan.