IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Houghton
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1974WI025001
  • User Pedon ID: 74WI025001
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - SSL
  • Lab Pedon # - 40A1643
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 35251
  • Print Date: 4/26/2025

    • 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: 43.1930542
  • Std. Longitude: -89.1130524
  • Datum: WGS84
  • GPS - Positional Error: 6.00
  • Township: 8N
  • Range: 12E
  • Section: 6
  • PLSS Details: SE1/4NW1/4NE1/4
  • Location Description: Dane County, WI. 430 feet N from center of rd and 234 feet E from ditch.
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Wisconsin
  • County: WI025—Dane
  • MLRA: 95—Eastern Wisconsin, Northern Illinois, and Upper Michigan Drift Plain
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-JUE—Juneau, Wisconsin
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: WI025—Dane County, Wisconsin

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: G.W. Hudelson and C.L. Glocker
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Euic, mesic Typic Haplosaprists
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: classifies to current taxon name, full description
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: Converted from SSL-CMS data
  • Pedon #: 1
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Houghton
  • Classificaton Date - 7/30/2008
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Houghton
  • Classificaton Date - 8/1/1974
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: organic material and/or herbaceous organic material
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no
  • RaCA Information:
  • Plot/Site Set Up By - Unknown
  • Plot or Site Recorder - Unknown

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 8/1/1974 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
  • Site Erosion Accelerated: water erosion
    • 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

    —

    —

    —

    —

    —

    899

    —

    155

    8

    22

    -5

    12

    22

    2

    558

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    00014837

    MADISON DANE CO REGIONAL AIRPORT, WI US

    NOAA
    1Oap1—0 to 25 centimeters (0.0 to 9.8 inches); black (N 2/0) crushed Error; weak fine granular structure; friable; 0.5 roots; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A12982. 74L1479; about 5 to 10% fiber, less than 5% rubbed; fibers primarily herbaceous; about 10 to 15% mineral soil material; few roots
    1Oap2—25 to 33 centimeters (9.8 to 13.0 inches); very dark gray (10YR 3/1) crushed and black (10YR 2/1) interior Error; weak fine granular, and weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3, hellige-truog; abrupt smooth boundary. Lab sample # 40A12983. not sampled; about 10% or less fiber, less than 5% rubbed; fibers primarily herbaceous; about 10 to 15% mineral soil material
    1Oa3—33 to 43 centimeters (13.0 to 16.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) crushed Error; weak fine platy structure; very friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A12984. 74L1480; 82% fiber; 6% rubbed; fibers primarily herbaceous; about 10 to 15% mineral soil material
    1Oa4—43 to 109 centimeters (16.9 to 42.9 inches); very dark brown (10YR 2/2) interior and black (10YR 2/1) crushed Error; structureless massive; very friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8, hellige-truog; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # 40A12985. 74L1481; 84% fiber, 4% rubbed; fibers primarily herbaceous; about 15 to 20% mineral soil material
    1Oa5—109 to 152 centimeters (42.9 to 59.8 inches); dark yellowish brown (10YR 3/4) interior and very dark grayish brown (10YR 3/2) crushed and dark brown (10YR 3/3) interior Error; structureless massive; very friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0, hellige-truog. Lab sample # 40A12986. 74L1482; 68% fiber, 4% rubbed; fibers primarily herbaceous; about 10 to 15% mineral soil material