IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Hastings
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: 80NE081122
  • User Pedon ID: 80NE081122
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Print Date: 12/6/2025

    • 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: 41.0468611
  • Std. Longitude: -97.9020000
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 13N
  • Range: 5W
  • Section: 33
  • PLSS Details: 700 feet east and 100 feet north of the SW corner
  • Map Unit: Hc—Hastings silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes3864—Hastings silt loam, 0 to 1 percent slopes
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Nebraska
  • County: NE081—Hamilton
  • MLRA: 75—Central Loess Plains
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: NE081—Hamilton County, Nebraska
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 41097-A8—Central City East, Nebraska

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: R. Pollock and T. Pickering
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-silty, mixed, superactive, mesic Udic Argiustolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: taxadjunct
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: full pedon description
  • Pedon Record Orgin: NASIS
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Hastings
  • PSC - 25 to 58 cm.
  • Classificaton Date - 12/19/2011
  • Soil Taxonomic Edition - eleventh edition
  • Moisture Class - ustic
  • Moisture Subclass - udic
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Holder
  • Classificaton Date - 1/31/1980
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Erosion Class - 1
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: Peorian loess
  • Landscape: loess upland
  • Landform: interfluve
  • Geomorphic Component Hills: interfluve
  • Hill Slope Profile: summit
  • Drainage Class: well
  • Flooding: none flooding
  • Ponding: none ponding
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 1/31/1980 (actual site observation date)
  • 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
    • Pedon Diagnostic Features
    Feature Kind Feature Depth L-H Feature Thickness L-RV-H
    cm

    mollic epipedon

    argillic horizon

    0—25

    25—58

    —25—

    —33—
    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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    Ap—0 to 13 centimeters (0.0 to 5.1 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silt loam; weak medium granular structure; soft, very friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; abrupt smooth boundary.
    A—13 to 25 centimeters (5.1 to 9.8 inches); dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), very dark brown (10YR 2/2), moist; silt loam; moderate coarse granular structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; moderately acid, pH 5.6; clear smooth boundary.
    Bt1—25 to 43 centimeters (9.8 to 16.9 inches); grayish brown (10YR 5/2), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), moist; silty clay loam; moderate medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.2; clear smooth boundary.
    Bt2—43 to 58 centimeters (16.9 to 22.8 inches); brown (10YR 5/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silty clay loam; moderate coarse subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.4; clear smooth boundary.
    BC—58 to 71 centimeters (22.8 to 28.0 inches); pale brown (10YR 6/3), brown (10YR 4/3), moist; silt loam; weak coarse prismatic parts to weak medium subangular blocky structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; slightly acid, pH 6.5; clear smooth boundary.
    C1—71 to 127 centimeters (28.0 to 50.0 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), brown (10YR 5/3), moist; silt loam; 1 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) medium distinct mottles; weak coarse prismatic structure; slightly hard, friable; fragments; neutral, pH 6.8; clear wavy boundary.
    C2—127 to 152 centimeters (50.0 to 59.8 inches); very pale brown (10YR 7/3), pale brown (10YR 6/3), moist; silt loam; 10 percent strong brown (7.5YR 4/6) medium distinct mottles; weak coarse prismatic structure; soft, very friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3.