IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hector
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 1993MO185016
  • User Pedon ID: 1993MO185016
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M9318516
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 28518
  • Print Date: 4/19/2025

    • 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: 38.0400000
  • Std. Longitude: -93.8990000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 38N
  • Range: 27W
  • Section: 28
  • PLSS Details: 2,250 feet west and 200 feet south of the northeast corner
  • Map Unit: 40101—Hector fine sandy loam, 5 to 25 percent slopes, stony
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO185—St. Clair
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO185—St. Clair County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38093-A8—Taberville, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: David Howard
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Loamy, siliceous, subactive, thermic Lithic Dystrudepts
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: TUD pedon
  • Pedon Purpose: soil survey inventory
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hector
  • Classificaton Date - 12/27/2017
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - twelfth edition
  • Moisture Class - udic
  • Moisture Subclass - typic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Hector
  • Taxonomic Class - Loamy, siliceous, subactive, thermic Lithic Dystrudepts
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 1/25/2011
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: residuum weathered from sandstone
  • Landscape: plains
  • Landform: hillslope
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: side slope
  • Hill Slope Profile: backslope
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

  • Ecological Sites. (Click Ecological Site ID For Link to EDIT.)
    Ecological Site ID Ecological Site Name Correlation Data Classifier
    R112XY033MO Shallow Sandstone Upland Glade/Woodland

    • SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/25/2011 (entry creation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - tree cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hardwoods
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Restrictions
    Kind Hardness Restriction Depth L-H Restriction Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    bedrock, lithic

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    43 -

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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

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    236

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    1092

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    14

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    A—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); brown (10YR 4/3), brown (10YR 5/3), dry; fine sandy loam; moderate fine granular structure; very friable; 10 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; strongly acid, pH 5.5, hellige-truog; clear smooth boundary.
    Bw—13 to 43 centimeters (5.1 to 16.9 inches); yellowish brown (10YR 5/4) gravelly fine sandy loam; weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 20 percent by volume sandstone, unspecified fragments; very strongly acid, pH 5.0, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary.
    R—43 centimeters (16.9 inches); bedrock; fragments.