IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Chillicothe
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 2004MO037001
  • User Pedon ID: 2004MO037001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - MCL
  • Lab Pedon # - M0403701
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 31020
  • Print Date: 5/15/2025

    • 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: 38.6591667
  • Std. Longitude: -94.3211111
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: T44N
  • Range: R31W
  • Section: 3
  • PLSS Details: NE 1/4 of the NE 1/4
  • Location Description: About 1.5 miles east of Harrisonville, Missouri.
  • Map Unit: 30178—Polo silt loam, 2 to 5 percent slopes
  • State: Missouri
  • County: MO037—Cass
  • MLRA: 112—Cherokee Prairies
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MO037—Cass County, Missouri
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 38094-F3—Harrisonville, Missouri

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: J.R. Perkins, M. Abney, D. Wolf, L. Gray, K. Worth, B. Evans, C. Remley, W. Wehmueller
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine, smectitic, mesic Oxyaquic Vertic Argiudolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Chillicothe
  • PSC - 42 to 92 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 1/31/2012
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Chillicothe
  • Classificaton Date - 3/21/2004
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Field Measured Properties: 94 cm of Depth to discontinuity


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: silty and clayey loess over clayey residuum weathered from limestone and shale
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Slope Complexity: simple
  • Slope Shape Across: linear
  • Slope Shape Down: convex
  • Runoff: medium
  • Drainage Class: moderately well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Bedrock: strongly coherent moderate weathered limestone, unspecified at 206cm
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 3/21/2004 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 1 - grass/herbaceous cover
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    lithic contact

    0—28

    42—133

    133—

    —28—

    —111—

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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

    3

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    311

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    225

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    Ap—0 to 14 centimeters (0.0 to 5.5 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior silt loam; moderate fine subangular blocky parts to weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU025866; observed in pit, small
    A—14 to 28 centimeters (5.5 to 11.0 inches); very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) exterior silty clay loam; weak fine subangular blocky parts to moderate fine granular structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU025867; observed in pit, small
    BA—28 to 42 centimeters (11.0 to 16.5 inches); 70 percent dark brown (7.5YR 3/2) exterior and 30 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) exterior silty clay loam; weak very fine subangular blocky, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU025868; observed in pit, small
    Bt1—42 to 65 centimeters (16.5 to 25.6 inches); 60 percent yellowish red (5YR 4/6) exterior and 40 percent brown (10YR 4/3) exterior silty clay loam; moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 35 percent faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine prominent dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist, masses of reduced iron in matrix and 10 percent fine manganese masses; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU025869; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 263713; patchy - phpvsfiid 263713
    Bt2—65 to 94 centimeters (25.6 to 37.0 inches); 70 percent reddish brown (5YR 4/4) exterior and 30 percent brown (10YR 4/3) exterior silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; firm; 40 percent distinct reddish brown (5YR 4/3), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine manganese masses; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU025870; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 263714; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 263714
    2Bt3—94 to 123 centimeters (37.0 to 48.4 inches); yellowish red (5YR 4/6) exterior silty clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 40 percent distinct dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 15 percent fine manganese masses; fragments; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU025871; observed in pit, small. discontinuous - phpvsfiid 263715; discontinuous - phpvsfiid 263715
    2Bt4—123 to 133 centimeters (48.4 to 52.4 inches); reddish brown (5YR 4/4) exterior silty clay; weak coarse prismatic parts to moderate fine subangular blocky structure; firm; 40 percent distinct dark reddish gray (5YR 4/2), moist, clay films on all faces of peds; 10 percent fine manganese masses on faces of peds; fragments; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # MU025872; observed in pit, small. patchy - phpvsfiid 263716; patchy - phpvsfiid 263716
    2R—133 centimeters (52.4 inches); bedrock; fragments.; observed in pit, small